Explain what a CDI 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 (CDI). Clinical Documentation Improvement is important for the health and well being of the organization in the following ways - 1. The first and the foremost important aspect of CDI 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. CDI 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 report cards, public health data and disease tracking. 5. CDI makes sure that correct information about the patient is communicated of the care team. F care giver's to all the members 6. CDI also helps in financial gains due to perfect allocation and recording of services and data. 7. Implementation of CDI 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. 8. 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. CDI further helps in proper clinical documentation which is the key to successful value based. care implementation 10. All this finally helps to have a positive impact on the patient care as documentation reduced and data integrity through Electronic Health Record improves time is