Assume you are an Office Manager for a small to medium size physician practice clinic. Review the Readings from Unit 3 and Unit 4 including the information on Systems Selection, Implementation, and the Appendix A RFI/RFP reporting format

Deliverable:  Prepare a 2-4-page report that outlines:
The needs of the clinic as it relates to Clinical Documentation Improvement Software including:
What is Clinical Documentation Improvement?
What, if any, barriers exist to implementing the software?
What is the role of the HIM professional?
The needs of the larger healthcare community/continuum as it relates to Clinical Documentation Improvement Software.
Research at least three Clinical Documentation Improvement software vendors and review their systems. At a minimum, include the following information in comparing the vendors in a table format: 
What are the benefits of the system as listed on their web page?
What kind of facility utilizes the vendors system?
Is there a coding encoder system component part of the system or available?
Are there any advantages of their system over others (as listed on their web page)?
Any information available in prices, demonstrations, free trials, and implementation.  Could you see inside the system on the vendors web site?
Conclude your review with a statement of which system you would purchase as a small office physician practice and why?
In your table or in an additional table, outline the database dictionary terms and definitions commonly used in the implementation of Clinical Documentation Improvement software in a Health Information Department.
What items should be included in the reporting database according to the needs of the clinic as well as the broader health information community/continuum of care?
Are their multiple definitions available for singular terms?
Assignment Requirements
Prepare a 3-4-page report that follows the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.) addressing the above questions and issues and in a Microsoft Word document, where appropriate.
Include your table comparing the CDI vendors and data dictionary items as either a standalone document or embedded in the Word Document.
The body of your document should be at least 1000 words in length.
Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper. Paraphrasing is necessary..
Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Your table(s) may be created in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel.