Choose wisely when hiring a CDI specialist
Medical Records Briefing, July 1, 2008
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by Colleen S. Garry, RN, BS
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from HCPro’s book The Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist’s Handbook. For more information, visit www.hcmarketplace.com/prod-5975.html.
Hiring the right clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialist can make or break a CDI program. And if the job description and requirements are inaccurate, you may be excluding your best candidate, or the best candidate may exclude him- or herself.
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