Year: 2019

Over the past decade, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) has become increasingly important as Ontario has moved into data-driven funding mechanisms. With the new focus on financially incentivizing performance across the health system, data quality will continue to be a critical factor as it has been in similar models in other countries. We’ve had the opportunity to work with over 40 hospitals in Ontario to help improve their clinical documentation through the implementation of our Data Quality Assist (DQA) CDI platform. We’ve published this with the hope that it provides insight into common areas that should be considered by Ontario hospitals …