FEATURES 5 From the ground up: Employee engagement in CDI 8 2024 ACDIS national conference recap: Four days of discovery 10 Case study: Bolster success with CDI...Read More »
Springtime is officially here (or perhaps even early summer for our friends in warmer climes than mine here in the Northeast), and with it often comes a beautiful barrage of engagement and wedding announcements. CDI professionals are a group that deeply...Read More »
The importance of employee engagement in any working environment cannot be overstated: Maintaining a sense of interconnectedness between all staff members is critical for the success of any outcome. This especially holds true for CDI departments. Because so much...Read More »
Did you know that while an average of 2.38 solar eclipses happen each year, a single location will be in the path of totality only once approximately every 375 years? For a little...Read More »
No one jumps straight into CDI when they join the workforce, and for good reason. The crossover of two very different skill sets (clinical and coding), the lack of linear pathing to and within the career, and the confidence required for CDI advocacy and education...Read More »
by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
Perhaps because the profession of CDI is derived from so many disciplines (including coding, HIM, and clinical expertise) and supports so many efforts (such as risk adjustment, quality measure reporting, population health,...Read More »
Fights happen. On the playground. In the classroom. In the kitchen. Conflict is a normal part of the human experience; however, when a final DRG and a working DRG get into a fight, sometimes they need a few CDI specialist helping hands to resolve the issue....Read More »
I recently took a personality test and, after answering a series of questions based on various case scenarios, learned that my strengths are in collaboration and education. It took me some time to reflect on what this meant in the context of working as a...Read More »