"' Explain what a CD1 program entails . "' What specific criteria would be required for staff for this program , and the expected benefits [supported by existing statistics from the literature ] The process of improving the records of health care to offer value services to the customers or patients along with better patient outcomes , quality of data and meticulous reimbursements is called Clinical Documentation Improvement (CD1). Clinical Documentation Improvement is important for the health and well being of the organization in the following ways - l. The first and the foremost important aspect of CD1 is that it allows to code , record and document data in the most efficient manner. 2. This helps maintain the records related to patient service encounters properly 3. CD1 make possible to represent the clinical status of the patient and translate that to coded data . 4.This coded data is then used as an input for quality reporting , reimbursements , care giver's report cards , public health data and disease tracking 5. CD1 makes sure that correct information about the patient is communicated to all the members of the care team . 5. CD1 also helps in financial gains due to perfect allocation and recording of services and data. 7. Implementation of CD1 leads to remarkable improvement in the quality and increase in the Case Mix Index . Case Mix Index is a value used to determine the resource allocation for the care and treatment of the patients in diagnosis related group . 3. Case Mix Index is monitored by the finance team and has been proved to be the highest motivating factor for implementing CDI because of it has the capability to increase the revenues and optimize the use of high value specialist 9. CD1 further helps in proper clinical documentation which is the key to successful value based care implementation 10. All this nally helps to have a positive impact on the patient care as documentation time is reduced and data integrity through Electronic Health Record improves