Tracking CDI Metrics: Use Data to Improve Your Program
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: ACDIS
Presented on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The only way to improve your clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program is to track the appropriate metrics and make necessary changes.
During this 90-minute audio conference, our speakers will show you which metrics to monitor and how to analyze your data. You'll learn how to use the data and share results with CDI staff and physicians to promote professional development and strengthen the overall effectiveness of your CDI program.
Note: This is an intermediate-level program.
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- List appropriate metrics to measure for CDI programs
- Use data to refine CDI processes and develop education opportunities
- Monitor the success of individual CDI specialists and the program as a whole
- Present relevant data to appropriate audiences
AGENDA
- Choosing metrics to measure
- Query rate
- Query response rate
- Physician agreement rate
- DRG agreement rate
- Case-mix index shifts
- CC/MCC capture rates
- Severity of illness/risk of mortality benchmarks
- Advanced Metrics
- Managing the data
- Data Integrity
- Frequency of monitoring
- Access to reports
- Responsibility for monitoring
- Analyzing information
- Communicate financial benefits
- Improve CDI performance
- Use data to educate physicians
- Compare data to physician/facility report cards
- Taking the next steps
- Forecast the effect of annual IPPS changes
- Discover multiple avenues for success
- A live question and answer session follows the presentation.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Jonathon L. Elion, MD, FACC, is an associate professor at Brown University in Providence, RI and president and CEO of ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc. in Wakefield, RI. He has more than 40 years of experience in computing and more than 25 years of experience in medical computing and information standards
Nancy Ignatowicz, RN, MBA, CCDS, is a systems manager of clinical documentation for Provena Health in Frankfort, IL. She has more than 36 years of experience in healthcare, with focus on data analysis and data presentation for the last 17 years.CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
AAPC: This program has prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders for 1.5 Continuing Education Units. Granting of this approval in no way constitutes endorsement by the Academy of the program, content or the program sponsor.
AHIMA: This program has been approved for 1.0 continuing education unit for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
CCDS: This program has been approved for 1.5 continuing education units towards fulfilling the requirements of the Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) certification, offered as a service of the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS).
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET
In addition to the expertise and information presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- Definition of numerators and denominators used to calculate the parameters reported at Provena Health
- Samples of CDI reports used at Provena Health
- Template of Provena Health’s Clinical Utilization Profile
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Clinical documentation improvement specialists, CDI directors and managers, HIM directors and managers and coders; CFO, CDI physician advisors
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the audio conference and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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