BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 9

CDI Integrity

There recently has been much discussion on the merits of changing the name of the CDI profession from Clinical Documentation "Improvement" to Clinical Documentation "Integrity." ACDIS and AHIMA recently announced the consideration of transition from improvement to integrity as a means of transitioning to a more robust encompassing term that reflects the movement of the profession away from the notion of diagnosis and reimbursement capture. The notion of a simple change in a word facilitating transformation to a more encompassing robust role of CDI in the overall scheme of healthcare delivery must be called into question. What's...

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