CDI Efforts in Crafting Systemwide Clinical Definitions: Making Clinical Indicator Definitions Actionable for Providers
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Presented on: Friday, August 21, 2020 | 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern
Presented by:Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, and Joseph Cristiano, MD, FACP
Some of the most commonly queried diagnoses become focus areas simply because different physicians have different clinical definitions for what constitutes a given condition.
To help reduce confusion, CDI professionals can bring coding, quality, and clinical teams together to conduct research and create systemwide, universally accepted criteria for these conditions.
This webinar will describe a strategic initiative for systemwide clinical definitions that’s underway at Wake Forest Baptist Health in North Carolina. Speakers from Wake Forest will detail the lessons learned, review metrics to help lead data-driven decision-making, and suggest easy-to-implement EHR and IT changes to help reduce documentation burdens on physicians.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify opportunities to leverage EHR and IT in enhancing provider clinical documentation to improve workflow and efficiency
- Define clinical indicators and discuss their role in clinical documentation
- Evaluate whether clinical indicator research and development could be beneficial for their own organization
Agenda
- What are clinical indicators?
- Can a clinical indicator policy help you?
- Getting started: Strategy for developing clinical indicators
- Find your team
- Identify leading/lagging metrics
- Determine diagnosis targets
- Smart phrase/EHR point of care
- Determine IT/EHR resources
- Determine EHR support goals
- Learning health system and clinical research opportunities
- Develop performance metrics to assess value
- End-user utilization
- Attitudes and impact on end-user workflow
- Impact on leading and lagging indicators
- Dissemination and education
- Onboarding/initial training
- Partnership with marketing
- Point-of-care tools
- Q&A
Who Should Listen?
- CDI specialists
- CDI managers/directors
- HIM managers/directors
- Inpatient coders
- Physician advisors
- Hospital quality staff
Meet the Speaker
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Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is a registered nurse with more than 35 years of experience, including more than 20 years in CDI. She is currently the director of clinical documentation excellence at Wake Forest Baptist Health. She was a founding member of the CDI team at Wake Forest in 1999 and continues to lead the team. She served as a founding member of the ACDIS Advisory Board and was reelected to the board in 2016; she also helped write the original CCDS exam and currently serves on the CCDS Outpatient Certification Board. In 2019, Hicks received the CDI Professional of the Year Award at the annual ACDIS conference in Orlando, Florida.
Joseph Cristiano, MD, FACP, is an academic internal medicine physician at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. His clinical areas of expertise are in acute care and perioperative medicine. He has an appointment as an assistant professor and is a core educator for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. With approximately seven years’ experience as a physician educator for Wake Forest’s institutional CDI leadership, he leads onboarding and ongoing education for new providers and resident physicians.Continuing Education
Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS)
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).
National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI)
This program has been approved for 1.5 continuing education units towards fulfilling the requirements of the Certification in Healthcare Revenue Integrity (CHRI), offered as a service of the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI).
Instructions
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