2010 CDI Program Management Track: ACDIS Conference Audio Recording

On-demand audio recordings of the Program Management track of the
Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists' Third Annual Conference
held June 3-4, 2010, in Chicago

This event featured nationally recognized experts and in-the-trenches healthcare providers addressing key issues in clinical documentation improvement (CDI), with practical and innovative approaches for CDI success. Now through these on-demand recordings, you can bring the same great training presented at the Chicago event to your team, ensuring everyone has the same foundation to strengthen your organization's CDI program and ensure success.

The Program Management track was one of three tracks presented. For information on the Clinical Chart Review track or the New Initiatives and Ideas track, please click the appropriate link. You may also purchase all three tracks in a package that includes three general sessions:

• CDI in 2010: Spotlight on Compliance (by Catherine O’Leary and Gloryanne Bryant)
• Gray Areas in CDI: Negotiating the Relationship (by Dr. James Kennedy)
• Question and Answer Panel Discussion

Program Management track topics:

Best Practices for Managing CDI Staff Across Multiple Campuses
Lena N. Wilson, RHIA, CCS
Clarian Health in Indianapolis has a CDI program that spans six campuses across the state of Indiana. This has created several challenges, especially taking into consideration the economy and having eight employees to handle this workload. This session includes best practices for managing CDI staff in large and smaller facilities.

Understanding the Role of Process Mapping in Clinical Documentation Improvement
Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, and John Trusten
Process mapping provides a unique new approach for facilities to evaluate their current CDI program against industry best practices and improve their performance. While focusing on roles and processes that impact CDI from an HIM perspective, this session provides a case study example from a client site to help organizations understand the importance of establishing an effective CDI program and how to manage a program.

From the Bedside to the Business Side of CDI
Natalie Leagan, RN, BSN, CCDS
Documentation is the key to unlocking opportunity throughout your organization. As difficult as these changing times are, the CDI specialist is in a unique position to impact multiple areas of risk within an organization–inpatient and outpatient, compliance, reimbursements, data quality, and more–through improved documentation. This session identifies how CDI can support and impact various aspects of revenue cycle, and position CDI specialists to become an expert and advance their career.

Catch Them and Hold Them: A CSI Approach to Documentation Education
Monica Dancu, RN, BSN, and Sylvia Hoffman, RN
Doctors are bombarded with information on a daily basis. This session provides new and dynamic ideas for using MS PowerPoint presentations to educate your physicians/providers as well as tips for capturing the attention of your audience and increasing their —buy in—.

Physician Champions to CDI: Developing the Role and Achieving Medical Staff Compliance
Trey La Charité, MD, and Richard S. Eisenstaedt, MD, FACP
Led by two physician champions at their respective facilities, this session includes laying the groundwork for a physician champion to CDI, including identifying appropriate candidates, training, and maximizing their effectiveness. This session also describes techniques developed and implemented by a physician advisor to obtain sustained physician buy-in at a 500-bed academic medical center.

Data Mining and Reports: Using Data to Drive Your CDI Program
Nancy Rae Ignatowicz, RN, MBA
Physicians and financial executives are data driven, and most CDI departments would like to be as well, but shortages of time and/or staff present formidable blockades. Increasingly, CDI specialists are asked to do more without increasing staff or changing productivity and financial targets. Learn how your CDI department can use data to promote change in your organization.

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