If you’re struggling to find speakers for upcoming local chapter meetings, consider looking within your own membership and offering incentives to those willing to speak.
The Kansas City, Missouri ACDIS chapter offered a previously purchased...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
The success of a CDI department isn’t in any one person’s control, but a good CDI manager or team lead can go a long way. Sometimes leaders are hired for their position and other times leadership is simply dealt to them, but either way the best sort of leader will...Read More »
by Kim Conner, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
The pandemic has shown us many pain points in our healthcare system, and over the past three years, organizations have had to adapt and think outside the box regarding delivery of care. Hospital beds continue to be at a premium, and acute care...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
After careful deliberation, you have decided your CDI program now needs a physician advisor (PA) to take it to the next level. Alternatively, your existing CDI PA may have taken a new position elsewhere or perhaps simply retired....Read More »
Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, is chief clinical strategist at Iodine Software and a member of the Michigan chapter of ACDIS. She has been in the CDI field for 15 years and has been a repeat presenter at the ACDIS national conference.
As you may have seen, ACDIS published its 2021 CDI Salary Survey last week. From a strictly academic standpoint, the data is interesting, but...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Gone are the days when CDI departments largely confined their efforts to the inpatient acute care setting and considered anything else “cutting edge.” As payment methodologies and quality reporting programs expand and change, CDI programs prove their efficacy...Read More »