Clinical Documentation Improvement

Using data analytics to fuel correct, compliant financial reimbursement and accurate quality reporting 

As health care continues to move toward value-based care and pay-for-performance models, the financial ramifications of performance on certain quality measures also increase. In this new environment, clinical documentation plays a more critical role in care quality, driving health care providers to collaborate with clinical documentation, quality and coding teams for more accurate data reporting.

Vizient Clinical Documentation Improvement helps members advance the quality of clinical documentation, which results in accurate and compliant reimbursements. Further, you achieve a more reflective case mix index (CMI) that truly shows acuity and complexity of care for your patient population. 

The Vizient difference: our data

A  successful clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program affects Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services quality measures, present on admission, pay-for-performance, value-based purchasing, data used for decision-making in health care reform, and other national reporting initiatives that require the specificity of clinical documentation.

Based on our comprehensive data and analytics expertise, we are able to diagnose documentation issues quickly and deliver rapid improvement. Our CDI experts leverage the depth and breadth of Vizient® analytics to assess your current state, provide actionable insights and implement improvement.

Our industry-leading analytics are powered by:

• Deeply integrated analytics and a decision-making platform built from more than 10 million patient visits documented in more than a decade of data
• Risk-adjusted clinical data that provides transparent, comparative benchmarking
• Data and analytics at the service line, physician and procedure level
• A footprint with more than 50% of the nation’s hospitals and 90% of its academic medical centers