This is the final part of a 3-part blog series on the limits of traditional clinical documentation integrity (CDI) solutions. Part 1 talks about the importance of clinical documentation, and part 2 explores common CDI challenges.
Hospitals are under increasing pressure to do more with less — fewer staff, less time, and shrinking budgets. At the same time, expectations for accurate, real-time clinical documentation continue to rise. And legacy solutions simply cannot handle these demands.
The good news: AI-powered clinical documentation integrity software is here. This new generation of powerful capabilities is designed to enhance — not replace — your team.
With the right AI-powered CDI solution, you can:
- Streamline documentation
- Reduce burnout
- Unlock meaningful gains across clinical, financial, and operational outcomes
What is AI-powered clinical documentation integrity software?
Clinical documentation integrity software is designed to support, not supplant, your key teams. These solutions streamline and optimize documentation, ensuring that your experts can allocate their time and energy to the most valuable tasks rather than to cases with little opportunity.
These advanced solutions analyze data and flag potential documentation inaccuracies for human to review using:
- Advanced machine learning (ML)
- Large language models (LLMs)
- Natural language processing (NLP)
The benefits of AI-powered clinical documentation integrity software
AI-driven documentation tools reduce workload and accelerate decision-making across departments:
- CDI teams can identify missed comorbidities and focus on high-opportunity cases
- RCM teams receive cleaner, faster-to-process data for accurate and timely billing
- Clinicians respond to queries in under a minute using integrated tools that eliminate the need to log in to separate systems
AI clinical documentation integrity software doesn’t just save time — it helps hospitals tackle staffing shortages by enabling leaner teams to maintain, or even improve, productivity.
What to look for in AI-powered Clinical Documentation Integrity software
To support CDI teams. you need AI-powered tools to improve documentation across the health system.
Waystar AltitudeAI™ combines the power of ML, LLM, and NLP to prompt human clinical judgment. Our AI-powered Clinical Documentation Integrity software is:
- Built to support highly technical and custom workflows throughout the revenue cycle
- Uses real-time data integration to empower teams to make data-driven decisions
- Utilizes the largest set of clinical data in the industry to cut through clutter and surface patient files that might benefit from additional documentation (comorbidity, physician query, evidential testing, etc.)
In all of these efforts, CDI software doesn’t replace people with AI — it supports people so they can do more of the work that matters.
Waystar’s AI-powered Clinical Documentation Integrity capabilities
- Triage
- Prioritizes high-impact documentation cases and streamlines workflows
- 93% of hospitals see a meaningful financial improvement
- Interact
- Gives physicians the ability to respond to documentation queries in seconds
- 98% response rate and <32-hour average turnaround
- Optimize
- Refines utilization management processes
- Reduces case review times by 63% via real-time prioritization and payer-aligned insights
Unlock AI-powered Clinical Documentation Integrity software
When you leverage AI-powered CDI software, you’re not handing over your documentation to a robot; instead, you’re utilizing the reasoning and deductive power of modern AI to dramatically increase the efficiency of your human decision-makers.
Ready to see what AI-powered CDI software can do for you?
