by Charlie | Sep 4, 2026 | Clinical Documentation Integrity
Ask a CDI manager whether AI in CDI is going to eliminate the department and you usually get a tired look. Ask the same manager whether AI in CDI has added to the team’s workload this year and you get a much longer answer. The distance between those two...
by Charlie | Aug 31, 2026 | Oncology Data Management
If you are the only person abstracting cases at your facility, you already know the quiet math of the job. You read the pathology, the operative note, the imaging, the clinic visits. You code the primary site, the histology, the stage, the first course of treatment....
by Charlie | Aug 27, 2026 | Health Information Management
Here is the takeaway up front. If you are evaluating outside help for your coding operation, the question that matters is not whether a vendor can send you credentialed coders. Most can. The question is who owns the management layer once those coders start working:...
by Charlie | Aug 25, 2026 | Trauma Registry Services
Ask most people what a trauma registry is, and if they have heard of one at all, they will describe a database. Somewhere a record gets entered, a box gets checked, and a survey passes. That description is not wrong, but it is small. Accurate, complete trauma registry...
by Charlie | Aug 20, 2026 | Health Information Management
Every hospital has a pool of money it has already earned but cannot touch yet. The care was delivered. The patient went home. The revenue is real. It just cannot be billed, because the chart is not coded and the claim is not out the door. That gap has a name:...
