As healthcare continues to evolve with a stronger focus on containing the costs of quality care across the
continuum of care, CDI and the art of querying are now expanding beyond the inpatient setting to include
hospital outpatient clinics, physician clinics, emergency departments, ambulatory surgery centers, hospital
observation, and other outpatient care settings. Therefore, providers across the healthcare spectrum need
to be educated about the importance of documentation improvement through AHIMA Outpatient Query Toolkit.