Industry Insight

AHDI Announces Smith as 2017–2018 President-Elect

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) is pleased to announce Director-at-Large Joyce Smith, AHDI-F, was elected as the president-elect for the 2017–2018 term by the National Leadership Board. Smith will serve under the leadership of President Leigh Anne Frame, CHDS, AHDI-F.

“With 20-plus years of leadership experience in health care documentation at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as well as her longstanding commitment to AHDI and its members, Joyce will be an integral part of successfully moving AHDI forward. I have no doubt that we have the right group of dedicated and highly skilled professionals in place to face the challenges ahead," says Sheila Guston, CHDS, AHDI-F, interim CEO of AHDI.

At the announcement of the 2017–2018 National Leadership Board elections in July, Leigh Anne Frame, CHDS, AHDI-F, said, "I am honored and privileged to serve alongside these dedicated and capable members of the National Leadership Board. With their commitment to AHDI’s Strategic Plan and forward-reaching philosophies, we are in a position to advocate for the integrity of our health data, and we have the opportunity to lead our association in a forward direction and help shape the future of health care documentation."

— Source: Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity

ChartWise Medical Systems Names Steven Mason President and COO

ChartWise Medical Systems, a provider of computer-assisted clinical documentation improvement (CACDI) software, is pleased to announce that Steven Mason has joined the ChartWise executive leadership team. Mason will serve as ChartWise’s president and chief operating officer, and he will focus on leveraging the company’s best-in-class CACDI software technology to drive increased customer growth and user satisfaction. ChartWise founder Jon Elion, MD, will remain the company’s CEO and visionary leader.

Mason has decades of experience in starting, operating, and growing leading technology and services companies in the health and human services market, and brings his expertise to his new position at ChartWise.

“We’ve known and worked with Steven for several years and now is the perfect time to bring him into the fold,” Elion says. “Steven’s strategic expertise in facilitating accelerated growth with health care technology companies is an excellent fit with the proven track record that ChartWise has established in product innovation. He has worked closely with many of the nation’s leading health systems over his career, and we’re looking forward to turning him loose to work his magic with the ChartWise 2.0 solution.”

Mason joins ChartWise from MedeAnalytics where, as senior vice president and general manager of enterprise performance management solutions, he was primarily responsible for integrating, managing, and growing the Mede Performance Management business unit within the broader MedeAnalytics portfolio. Prior to MedeAnalytics, Mason was the cofounder and CEO of OnFocus Healthcare, which was acquired by MedeAnalytics in 2014.

“ChartWise is second to none in terms of their CACDI software technology,” Mason says. “The company is well regarded within the industry and has been recognized as a KLAS CDI category winner three years in a row for continuously raising the bar and advancing the technology hospitals and medical centers rely on for accurate coding, documentation, and reimbursement. I look forward to hitting the ground running as we take ChartWise to the next level of growth and product leadership.”

— Source: ChartWise Medical Systems