What is the CCDIS certification?
Certified Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (CCDIS) impact the accuracy of medical documentation and coding in the health care system.
The clinical documentation improvement specialty certification was developed with several groups of health care professionals in mind:
- Nurses and physicians with a minimum of three years of experience working in a health care setting
- Other regulated health professionals who have worked in clinical documentation improvement for a minimum of 3 years (candidates must also have completed course work in anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and pathophysiology)
- Certified Health Information Management (CHIM) professionals who are members in good standing or international equivalent with a minimum of 3 years of current HIM work experience in coding, CDI, cancer tumour registry, and/or data analysis using ICD-10-CA and CCI data.
To be eligible to apply for the clinical documentation improvement examination, candidates must:
- have graduated from a CDI program accredited by the College; or
- have completed a comparable CDI onsite training program approved by the College within their facility.
