I’ve been writing recently about the financial well-being of rural and critical access hospitals: about their struggling to stay in business and how establishing a clinical documentation improvement ...

Like many aspects of healthcare, clinical documentation is a complex yet necessary process. It is tied to more than just health information management functions; it is also essential to a hospital’s ...

1. Your observed to expected mortality rate is way off. Many hospitals and health systems are struggling to improve comparative mortality data. I’ve experienced the anxiety, as a physician executive, ...

This study found a wide majority of practicing physicians (71%) report they would be more responsive to Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) clarifications if these were delivered in real-time ...