Poor clinical documentation is undermining patient care, hospital sustainability and healthcare data integrity

Patient Safety

Poor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many Australian hospitals.

Despite hospital leaders' best efforts, this culture remains entrenched and consistently undermines patients safety.

In fact, in a CDIA survey, up to 70% of nurses stated they were unable to find an indication in the medical record for a treatment they were administering to the patient. If you can relate to this, rest assured, you're not alone.

Financial Sustainability
The squeeze on hospital finances is tighter than ever in both public and private facilities.

Hospital finance leaders are looking to improve their funding to reflect their patient complexity, but often struggle to turn this into reality.

The complexity of many patients is often lost as clinicians omit or only infer important information, resulting in incomplete coding and inaccurate DRG assignment, leading to stressed and under-resourced hospitals.

Data Integrity

The need for data-driven decision making has never been greater in health care.

Many hospitals are torn between their excitement about AI and the frustration of the quality of their clinical documentation.

The quality of these decisions is entirely dependent on the quality of clinical documentation, which forms the basis of the data through clinical coding.

CDIA partnered hospitals have shown up to a 10x increase in the frequency of documented common diseases.

The CDIA Pursuit Program is your solution to better clinical documentation

The CDIA Pursuit Program is a complete, sustainable solution to transform your clinical documentation processes so your clinicians can deliver safer patient care.

Discover how to create a documentation culture that reflects the clinical truth, ensures your hospital funding is accurate and enhances your healthcare data’s integrity.

Learn more about the Pursuit Program

You’re in good company. Trusted by Australia and New Zealand’s best.

“CDIA worked with us to train our Clinical Documentation Specialists and launch our program with organisation wide education that reached over 500 staff. Without this assistance I don’t think our program would have kicked off as quickly and successfully as it has.”

Kylie Holcombe, Coding Auditor & CDI Program Lead Ballarat Health Services

“We introduced the CDIA program at the end of 2017 in response to diluted revenue returns from health funds and we have not looked back. Improved documentation isn’t just about revenue, it is about better outcomes for our patients.”

Brenda Petersen, Director of Clinical Services Calvary Riverina Hospital

“CDIA provided outstanding CDS education and long term personalised follow up. Thanks CDIA for my great introduction into the role of CDS!”

Sarah Taylor, Clinical Documentation Specialist John Fawkner Private Hospital

“Thank you so much CDIA. You delivered so much more than we anticipated in such a professional manner. There is such a positive vibe around our hospitals about CDI!”

Aileen Staunton, Former National HIM Healthscope

"Fantastic virtual training. The presenters are very relatable and knowledgeable. In such a short time I have learnt so much and excited to put the learnings into practice."

Rebecca Hudson, Clinical Documentation Specialist Wimmera Health Care Group

Enhance patient safety, financial sustainability, and data integrity by improving documentation culture!

Establishing an effective clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program is challenging for many hospitals. At its core, CDI involves completely revamping deeply entrenched documentation processes and behaviours.

CDI is a journey, not a one-off event, and as such requires an ongoing commitment from key stakeholders.

This white paper focuses on the key considerations for planning a sustainable and effective CDI program, including:

What are the key fundamentals of a CDI program?
How do you get executive buy-in?
How do you engage with your clinicians?
Who makes the best Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS)?

Written by Clinical Documentation Improvement Australia's National Director Mike Kertes, this white paper draws from CDIA's experience developing CDI programs in every state of Australia, New Zealand's largest hospital, and the most prestigious hospital in the Middle East.

Clinical Documentation Improvement Australia

Empowering clinicians to deliver safer care to every patient

Understanding Clinical Documentation Improvement:

Poor clinical documentation is undermining patient care, hospital sustainability and healthcare data integrity

Patient Safety

Poor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many Australian hospitals.

Despite hospital leaders' best efforts, this culture remains entrenched and consistently undermines patients safety.

Patient Safety

Financial Sustainability
The squeeze on hospital finances is tighter than ever in both public and private facilities.

Hospital finance leaders are looking to improve their funding to reflect their patient complexity, but often struggle to turn this into reality.

Financial Sustainability

Data Integrity

The need for data-driven decision making has never been greater in health care.

Many hospitals are torn between their excitement about AI and the frustration of the quality of their clinical documentation.

Data Integrity

You’re in good company. Trusted by Australia and New Zealand’s best.

Clinicians educated by CDIA

White paper: Establishing an effective CDI program

Enhance patient safety, financial sustainability, and data integrity by improving documentation culture!

Join the CDIA Community

Clinical Documentation Improvement Australia

Empowering clinicians to deliver safer care to every patient

Understanding Clinical Documentation Improvement:

Poor clinical documentation is undermining patient care, hospital sustainability and healthcare data integrity

Patient SafetyPoor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many Australian hospitals.Despite hospital leaders' best efforts, this culture remains entrenched and consistently undermines patients safety.

Patient Safety

Financial SustainabilityThe squeeze on hospital finances is tighter than ever in both public and private facilities. Hospital finance leaders are looking to improve their funding to reflect their patient complexity, but often struggle to turn this into reality.

Financial Sustainability

Data IntegrityThe need for data-driven decision making has never been greater in health care.Many hospitals are torn between their excitement about AI and the frustration of the quality of their clinical documentation.

Data Integrity

You’re in good company. Trusted by Australia and New Zealand’s best.

Clinicians educated by CDIA

White paper: Establishing an effective CDI program

Enhance patient safety, financial sustainability, and data integrity by improving documentation culture!

Join the CDIA Community

Patient Safety

Poor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many Australian hospitals.

Despite hospital leaders' best efforts, this culture remains entrenched and consistently undermines patients safety.

Financial Sustainability
The squeeze on hospital finances is tighter than ever in both public and private facilities.

Hospital finance leaders are looking to improve their funding to reflect their patient complexity, but often struggle to turn this into reality.

Data Integrity

The need for data-driven decision making has never been greater in health care.

Many hospitals are torn between their excitement about AI and the frustration of the quality of their clinical documentation.