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Not Elsewhere Classified is a podcast about the medical coding, health information management, and clinical documentation improvement community.

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The Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist improves the overall quality, completeness, and accuracy of medial record documentation. Obtains appropriate clinical documentation through extensive interaction with physicians, nursing staff, other patient caregivers, and Health Information Management coding staff to ensure that clinical documentation reflects the level of service rendered to patients is complete and accurate. Educates all members of the patient care team on documentation guidelines on an ongoing basis.

Part time position educating students in the Health Administration ProgramCourses:• Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Systems• Concepts in Healthcare Organizations• Medical Terminology• Fundamentals of Reimbursement in Healthcare• Software Applications in Healthcare: Virtual Learning Experience• Global Health Systems

Part time position educating students in the Health Information Technology Program • Organization of Health Care Delivery • Introduction to the Health Care Record • Medical and Drug Terminology • Release of Personal Health Information • Human Diseases • ICD-9-CM Coding • Health Care Data Sets and Specialized Registries • CPT Coding • Health Care Reimbursement Systems • Utilization, Risk and Compliance Management

Contracted position to educate students in the Health Information Technology Program • Basic Medical Terminology • Introduction to Health Services and Information Systems • Health Information Processes

• Contracted with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Department of Detention and Community Control • Oversee medical records in 5 jail facilities, housing approximately 6,000 inmates • Managed and educated staff of 45+ employees • Responsible for the planning, organizing, education and management of the HIM Department • Ensured HIM department met the National Commission of Correctional Healthcare and American Correctional Association standards • Accomplishments o Successfully received re-accreditation from the National Commission of Correctional Healthcare. o Re-inventoried over 5 years of inmate medical records for proper destruction o Improved medical chart organization for all facilities.

• Responsible for all Health Information Management clerical job functions. • Retrieves and processes the medical records of all discharged inpatients and outpatients. • Files and organizes all loose medical record reports. • Process requests for medical record number merges and patient information changes. • Responds to request for information. • Assist in chart reviews and audits for insurance companies, quality review agencies, consulting firms, physicians, and clinical staff from manual and automated records’ systems. • Responsible to correspond and resolve outpatient Local Medical Review Policies, coding, and diagnosis issues with physicians and office staff. • Accomplishments o Recognized for Bright Idea suggestion to have their “Authorization for Release of Confidential Medical Records Form” accessible online, http://www.mhs.net/Services/MedicalRecords. o Assisted in developing their telecommuting program, where coders and analysts are able to work from home [during internship]. o Assisted software vendor in the installation of new document viewing web application for the entire hospital