ARK HIM Solutions

Consulting & Training

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With the healthcare changes you are measured on the care you document, not the care you deliver.

 

As healthcare reform shifts the focus towards better quality outcomes for patients and value-based payment, hospitals and health systems need innovative solutions and services that proactively address change across the continuum of care. High quality clinical documentation is more important now than ever.

 

Our expert consultants can help you start a new CDI Program at your facility, help you restructure existing program to optimize efficiency and provide continuous education and support to your program.

 

Our unique approach to connect with each CDS on individual level to enhance their skills, increase their efficiency and depth of knowledge has shown successful outcomes.

 

Consulting:

 

We guarantee the success of your program by providing a complete solution including training, implementation, and ongoing support to engage your physician, CDI and coding teams to sustain the highest levels of quality over time.

 

Our consulting and training has resulted in CMI improvement of 4-8%, reimbursement appropriate to the level of care provided to patients, physician engagement and buy-in, all with excellent consultants, comprehensive program maintenance, structured compliance support and an infrastructure to sustain positive results.

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Training:

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Implement a step-by-step process for thorough medical record review based on industry guidelines

Develop compliant verbal and written physician queries and understand how to effectively query providers

Recognize the important clinical indicators for problematic diagnoses such as heart failure, sepsis, acute renal failure, and encephalopathy, acute respiratory failure

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CDS Will Develop:

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•             An understanding of the role of the CDS and the function of CDI programs in hospitals

•             Proficiency in applying ICD-10 coding

•             The ability to apply clinical knowledge to analyze and to interpret medical records

•             An understanding of query concepts and the ability to formulate physician queries

•             The skills to facilitate improvement in the overall quality of documentation

•             Comprehension of the ethical considerations involved in CDI programs

•             Recognition of the impact that CDI programs have in the areas of reimbursement, data quality, and compliance