Implementation of Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the hospital setting has grown exponentially over the last few years as a key financial strategy to address and meet the tough economic ...

Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

Everything hospital executives need to know about the importance of clinical documentation improvement is summed up in one single fact: CDI fuels correct reimbursement and accurate quality reporting.

As members of the laboratory animal science community, we are acutely aware of the need to provide accurate and adequate training to animal facility personnel. With the training of staff members, we ...

Background: Clinical documentation is critical to health care quality and cost. The generally poor quality of such documentation has been well recognized, yet medical students, residents, and ...

Explaining in one's native language (English, Spanish, Russian, etc.) what the source code of a program does. Throughout the history of programming, the range of program documentation ranges from ...

A new practice brief in the May issue of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association notes that the focus of most CDI programs is to improve the quality of clinical documentation ...

The Medical Documentation Course is an online self-paced, in-depth program that focuses on patient evaluation, documentation of the encounter and its billing. Instruction is presented through ...

For many staff auditors, the very mention of working paper review is enough to make their hair stand on end. No matter how thoroughly they perform an audit procedure, they know if their documentation ...

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) requires documentation of animal care procedures and verification of environmental conditions for animals maintained in confined housing ...