by Linnea Archibald
Serving on the ACDIS Advisory Board requires dedication, patience, and expertise. Members guide the association and the profession over their three-year terms. During that time, the board volunteers participate in...Read More »
by Merle Zuel, RN, CCDS, and Vajeeha Sadi-Ali, MD
How do you effectively engage physicians across the spectrum of specialties and service lines in a system where manual documentation of each diagnosis is still required? The trend in CDI is to focus more on quality metrics rather...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
I have a great affection for the 2000-Year-Old Man. A creation of classic comedians Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, this mythical sage from another time dispenses wisdom on all things historical. From him, I’ve learned that most language developed...Read More »
“We found this gold mine, and it was data analytics,” said Ashley Telisky, DO, MBA, CDI physician advisor at Albany (New York) Medical Center, during ACDIS’ fall 2020 online event Curtain Call: Behind the Scenes of Star-Studded CDI Programs, where she...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
Most CDI programs came into being with the primary focus of financial improvement and reimbursement accuracy: capturing CCs/MCCs to shift the MS-DRG placement to one with a higher relative weight. The impacts of these efforts were straightforward to demonstrate,...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
By the end of January 2021, the total number of deaths associated with the pandemic neared 450,000, according to John Hopkins’ coronavirus tracker. That’s the official count. Most in healthcare understand that...Read More »
by Brian Murphy
In the summer of 2020, our nation witnessed what seemed to be a weekly string of disturbing, terrible incidents involving violence perpetrated on people of color. We know the victims today, by name, due to the calls for justice from the voices of hundreds of...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
In many ways, 2020 was a year of reckoning for the United States and the world as a whole. While the COVID-19 pandemic revealed ways in which our public health initiatives need reforming, the wrongful deaths of several Black and other minority individuals at...Read More »
