Health Information Management

Product Spotlight: Capturing Severity and Risk with Focused CDI Efforts

CDI Strategies, October 9, 2014

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Many CDI programs understand the need to expand their reviews beyond CC/MCC capture rates. But where to begin? In this audio clip, Sara Baine, MSN-Ed, CCDS, and Rhonda Peppers, RN, BS, CCDS, explain how severity conditions matter to a facility’s healthcare scores and why such efforts are important. Click here to listen. During their Tuesday, November 4, webinar Baine and Peppers will describe how to best formulate effective severity of illness and risk of mortality queries, and track the success of those queries in painting an accurate picture of the patient’s condition and the treatments they have received during their stay. For more information, visit our CDI Marketplace.



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