Course details:

Course Aim: This course prepares candidates for the role of a clinical documentation specialist (CDS). It equips participants with the essential foundational skills to excel as a CDS. This training emphasises the critical role of accurate documentation in improving patient outcomes, enhancing the integrity of healthcare data, and ensuring that hospitals are funded reflective of their patient complexity.

Format: The virtual course will run over 5 days, with 4 hours of learning per day. The intensive program covers the following modules:

How to effectively establish and sustain a CDI program

KPI’s and measuring success of the CDI program

Clinician engagement - delivering a consistent CDI message

Classification and coding from a CDS perspective

Activity-based funding fundamentals as they relate to a CDS

Undertaking a concurrent review of the medical record

Ethical documentation query writing

The program includes an immersive CDS curriculum that is:

Clinician-led

Structured and interactive

Designed exclusively for individuals

Additional resources will be provided to supplement your learning, preparing you to sit the Level 1 CCDS certification assessment.

Dates: The next available course will run from 1st - 5th September 2025. Details of further course dates will released soon. Spaces for this program are strictly limited.
Course eligibility: All health professionals passionate about CDI and looking to expand their career including nurses, clinicians, Health Information Managers, Clinical Coders, and allied health professionals.

Attendance: Participants must complete 100% of the live virtual sessions to complete the course and receive the course certificate.

Certification: At the conclusion of the course, candidates will be eligible to apply to become a Level 1 Certified CDS. To attain this internationally recognised certification, applicants must pass a 130-question multiple choice examination.

Cost: Course fee is $6,895 + GST. The course fee includes all training materials and resources, membership to the CDIA Community, and Level 1 CCDS application fees. Participants have the option to customise their training with on ward CDS immersion and ongoing coaching & development.

Registrations for the September course close on Friday 22nd August 2025.
Don't miss this opportunity to become a certified CDS and advance your career in Clinical Documentation Improvement!
For further information, contact us – info@cdia.com.au

Why become a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)?

Clinical documentation forms the foundation of patient safety, clinical coding, hospital funding, and data integrity.

This course empowers you to transform your hospital's clinical documentation culture and prepares you to sit the exam to become an internationally recognised Level 1 Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS).

Patient Safety

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

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

This course will empower you to engage clinicians to create a sustained cultural change in documentation quality.

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.

This course will provide you with the knowledge and strategies to ensure your health service's funding reflects the true patient complexity.

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.

This course will empower you to help your hospital's data reflect the clinical reality to get the most out of digital health technologies.

"The presenters were great, easy to talk to and very engaging."

CDS trainee

"It was great having a doctor and a nurse as the facilitators. Feedback and discussion amongst the group was fantastic and highly valuable."

CDS trainee

What is Clinical Documentation Improvement?

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Foundations of CDI: Clinical Documentation Specialist Training

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Course details:

Why become a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)?

Patient Safety

Poor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many 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

What is Clinical Documentation Improvement?

Foundations of CDI: Clinical Documentation Specialist Training

Brought to you by

Clinical Documentation Improvement Australia

Course details:

Why become a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)?

Patient SafetyPoor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many 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

What is Clinical Documentation Improvement?

Patient Safety

Poor clinical documentation culture remains a pain point in many 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.