While the ACDIS weekly newsletter CDI Strategies is a great place to inform your local chapter and networking group members of upcoming meetings, it is also helpful to provide them with details of what the meeting will entail.
Provide ACDIS national with the date, time, and format of your...Read More »
While I don’t fully agree with the old saying that “if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind,” there is something to be said for moving in a direction instead of standing still. Many CDI departments begin their journeys reviewing for primarily CC/...Read More »
Hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful EHR users could see a 2.8% payment increase, if the...Read More »
Machine learning has the ability to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) and identify undetected chronic kidney disease, according to a study published by npj Digital Medicine.
Are institutions appealing sepsis denials if the patient meets sepsis-2/super systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria, but not sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) criteria? We have one hospital in our system that uses only sepsis-2 as their criteria, and many of them have...Read More »
At the end of 2020, we introduced our ACDIS Pocket Guide online resource tool, ACDIS PRO, allowing CDI specialists to take the latest Pocket Guide anywhere, virtually.
Re-finding your favorite article can be a difficult task. It doesn’t have to feel like banging your head against a wall, though. If you’re logged into the ACDIS website, you can actually “favorite” articles and access them all from one spot when you want to return to them.