67, 66, 65, 64 days and counting…. We are officially on the FINAL countdown to ICD-10 implementation. Health systems, providers, payors, etc., are working diligently to review that “Master Task List” we all created, what seems to be, a decade ago by now. [...]

As we continue our journey towards ICD-10 implementation on October 1, 2015, the use of combination codes brought up a discussion between myself and another CDS (Clinical Documentation Specialists). I had just read this article, and we were doing some [...]

I was reading an article today about healthcare reform and the affordable care act, which linked an increase in CDI staff with the increased use of electronic health records. I began to reflect on the past 10+ years in the Clinical Documentation [...]

Electronic health records continue to be instituted within hospitals in order to more efficiently capture the documentation of the patient story. In a recent article “Clinical Documentation in the 21st Century” we hear the position of the ACP (American [...]