AHDI and AHIMA have released a new whitepaper and resource kit calling for healthcare organizations to reinstate quality assurance (QA) programs with electronic health record (EHR) documentation, and specifically clinician-created documentation. The materials are now available on the AHDI website as a free download by clicking the button below.
To learn more, read the press release from AHDI and AHIMA and attend the webinar September 24 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Pacific.
In July 2014, AHDI and AHIMA released "Clinician-Created Documentation: Reinstating Quality Assurance Programs to Safeguard Patients and Providers." This document provides a standardized approach to measuring, reporting, and improving documentation for patient safety and documentation accuracy when clinicians are responsible for document creation.
The accompanying Resource Kit provides the tools needed to create and implement a quality assurance program in healthcare organizations. It's a set of explanatory and operational tools that are intended to be adapted by users to their own needs. 
At the NLB meeting on Wednesday, 4/9/14, the Board had its own "debate" about The Great Debate topics to be presented and discussed at the Healthcare Documentation Integrity Conference in July. We had a lively, interactive conversation about which topics would serve our attendees the best and be most interesting and beneficial. In the end, these are the topics we decided on:
Book of Style: Obsolete or Awesome?
QA of Clinician-Created Documentation: Luxury or Necessity?
Healthcare Documentation Entrepreneurs: Go For It or Forget About It?
We're calling all attendees to put your thinking caps on ahead of time and help make this year's Great Debate the best so far! Read more.
