AHIMA June 28, 2021
My career has been shaped by two critical experiences: burning out as a physician and witnessing the poor quality of clinical data as an analytics consultant for large payers. I realized that these problems are merely two sides of the same coin, and I am writing this article to help you as a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) leader realize how much your fate is intertwined with physician burnout, and how you can influence your organization to improve both your life and the lives of physicians.
If you have ever felt resistance from physicians to document “chronic systolic heart failure” instead of “CHF,” or felt frustrated by working with clinicians when they dismiss CDI as a “moneymaking effort,” I want to...
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