ACDIS update: How to get involved with ACDIS this year!

Are you looking to try something new, improve your leadership skills, or find a way to give back to the CDI community? Many ACDIS members and other CDI professionals do not realize the various avenues available to become more involved in this organization. But over the next few weeks we have two big opportunities you won’t want to miss!

First, many of our ACDIS committees are open for volunteer applications until Friday, June 30. What does an ACDIS committee do? It all depends on which one you’re talking about:

• Events Committee: This group helps plan the agenda for the ACDIS national conference and ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, as well as choose the winners of the ACDIS Achievement Awards.
• Furthering Education Committee: This group maintains and awards the ACDIS CDI Scholarship program and helps plan CDI Week activities and festivities.
• ACDIS Regulatory Committee: This large group divides into three subgroups tasked with promoting better coding and clinical accuracy within the commentary period of the CMS IPPS rule-making process, and monitoring and providing guidance on quality regulations.
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee: This group works to make CDI a community that embodies social responsibility through promoting a positive environment of greater diversity and inclusion across all cultures, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, and educational backgrounds, to break the silence that accompanies discrimination and inequity, and to ensure that all feel valued, empowered, and welcomed.
• Physician Advisor Committee: This is a brand-new committee looking for physician advisors to help craft guidance and best practices for other physician advisors in CDI. Among its tasks, the group will author a white paper on the role of the physician advisor in CDI and recommend best practices.

You can apply here to join one of these committees!

Are you looking for something a bit more independent or ACDIS conference-related, however? Another opportunity available is to apply to become an ACDIS speaker at the coming year’s events. From provider engagement to outpatient CDI and expansion, to professional development and leadership, there are nearly endless CDI topics we need speakers for at both the 2024 ACDIS conference held April 8-11, 2024 in Indianapolis and countless other in-person and virtual speaking events. Applications are open from now until Monday, July 24 for you to propose your topic and ideas!

If you’re interested in giving a presentation, either on your own or with one or more colleagues, you can apply to be an ACDIS speaker here. To get a better scope of the requirements, tips on applying, and the benefits offered, you can learn more about speaker applications here.