Q:In my facility, we are supposed to send an e-mail to our physician advisor (PA) and to administration if a query is not answered within a week. However, this policy doesn’t work well because administration does not do anything with that information, and the PA doesn’t...Read More »
Two local ACDIS chapters met last week to take advantage of some ACDIS insight.
On Wednesday, July 23, California ACDIS Chapter members joined ACDIS Education Director Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, who discussed...Read More »
To help you get revved up and rearing to go this year, we’re previewing a handful of speakers throughout the coming weeks to give you a feel for the sessions. This week, we spoke with Adelaide M. La Rosa, RN, BSN, CCDS, who, along with J. Peter Savini, BA, MHA...Read More »
This year’s CDI Week theme is “CDI and Quality.” On September 15-19 we’ll be celebrating our fourth annual week of recognition for this critical profession and covering a number of hot-button issues in our industry overview survey, but taking a close look at where the nation’s CDI programs are...Read More »
If you haven’t joined your local ACDIS chapter yet, what are you waiting for? Local chapter leaders and meeting hosts put a ton of volunteer effort into making sure these events are both educational and fun. Perfect case in point was the June 18 meeting of the Evergreen (Washington state) ACDIS...Read More »
After anecdotes that electronic health records (EHR) cause upcoding, Julia Adler-Milstein of the University of Michigan and Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health decided to delve into the data to see if it was true. Their...Read More »