AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Medical Records Briefing
presented on May 7, 2007
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"We have less than six months to prepare for severity-adjusted DRGs. That does put the pressure on! I think documentation improvement programs will be critical. If we don't have stellar physician/coding relations now, it will be imperative to establish them." - HIM Director
- Newton, KS
Last week, CMS proposed adopting in 2008 a severity-adjusted DRG system called Medicare-Severity DRGs (MS-DRGs)
Now the move toward severity-adjusted DRGs has made it even more important for facilities to have accurate documentation. The quality of the documentation in medical records is important in every facet of the facility or clinic for the purposes of (among others):
- patient care
- regulatory compliance
- physician/facility profiles
- legal protection/defense
- reimbursement
Listen to this 90-minute audioconference,Clinical Documentation Improvement: Essential components and measurements of success. Our speakers offer listeners an exploration of ideas, options, and measurements to develop and expand their clinical documentation improvement programs.
At the end of this audioconference you will be able to:
- Explain the varying functions and effects of clinical documentation
- Evaluate the widely varying options for clinical documentation improvement program structures
- Select a combination of potential ways to improve documentation within your own facility or clinic
- Analyze varying methodologies to demonstrate the effectiveness of your program and validate its continuing benefit to the hospital and medical staff
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- The role of clinical documentation and the impact of the severity-adjusted DRG proposal
- An exploration of the structure of clinical documentation improvement programs at three organizations
- Suggestions for success
- The challenges of getting physicians on board
- Sample charts, measures, and reports—ones that work
- Ideas for sharing the data with physicians and management, and incorporating it into the finance/revenue cycle
- Proven methodologies to continue to demonstrate the effectiveness—and effects—of a program
- Q&A
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive
- Results from HCPro’s clinical documentation improvement survey and related articles
- Excerpts from clinical documentation handbooks
These materials are provided with PDF links.
NEW PARTICIPATION OPTION
In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences—audio tape or audio CD,—we are pleased to offer a new option, an audio archive. Audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Jean S. Clark, RHIA is the service line director for health information management at Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, SC. She is the contributing editor to Medical Record Briefings, and author of Information Management: The Compliance Guide to JCAHO Standards, Fifth Edition and Ongoing Records Review: A Guide to JCAHO Compliance and Best Practice, Fourth Edition, all from HCPro. She is a past president of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and AHIMA's 2000 Distinguished Member, and the current president of the International Federation of Health Records Organizations (IFHRO).
Robert S. Gold, MD is founder and CEO of DCBA, Inc., in Atlanta, GA, a consulting firm that provides physician-to-physician educational programs in clinical documentation improvement, including training staffs to perform concurrent review and HIM professionals to understand the clinical aspects of diseases and procedures to which they assign codes. He has more than 40 years of experience as a physician, medical director, and consultant. Dr. Gold writes Clinically Speaking for Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies and Minute for the Medical Staff for Medical Records Briefing, and is the author of the new training handbook, Documentation Strategies to Support Severity of Illness: Ensure an accurate professional profile, all from HCPro.
Kelley Godin, CCS, is coding manager at Maine Medical Center, a 606-bed teaching hospital in Portland, ME. She has more than 15 years of experience in HIM, which includes her start as a medical transcriptionist and a coder to her current position as coding manager. Prior to joining Maine Medical Center, which utilizes four nurses and a DRG coordinator to work with the Clinical Documentation Management Program, Ms. Godin was at a 54-bed rural hospital in Vermont where the coding staff did concurrent coding as a method of improving documentation.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
HIM directors, managers and coders; quality and performance coordinators; clinical documentation specialists; medical staff presidents and department heads; case managers; utilization review managers; nurse managers; finance managers and staff; compliance managers and staff.
Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive of the program 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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