Laboratory Markers of Survival
Chapter 3 Bedside Questions · 8 questions · about 8 minutes
Laboratory values: margin is like a lactate or a hemoglobin, accurate but non-specific. Treating the number without finding where the bleeding is coming from harms the patient.
Laboratory markers, operationally: the financial results that depend on documentation and EHR build (quality-linked payment, denials, regulatory penalties, health IT spend), and whether anyone owns them. Answer Yes only when someone can produce the evidence today.
Answer as your executive team would, with the evidence in hand. Each question has a factual answer in a system you already own.
Can you trace one of your top three quality-linked payment metrics from the bedside data element to the dashboard, and do the workflows that produce that element actually exist?
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Is your CDI program integrated with the EHR at the workflow level, or a parallel chart-review function?
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Reimbursement is not a function of what was done. Reimbursement is a function of what was documented.
The Diagnostician, Chapter 3