Who doesn’t love all those crafty ideas on Pinterest or home improvement projects on HGTV? For those CDI professionals working alone in small facilities, or just getting a program off the ground, creating your own physician education program can seem daunting. But crafting newsletters, tip...Read More »
It took more than 100 hours and four-plus months to create the 60-plus page UNC Healthcare Clinical Documentation: Handbook for Physicians and other Licensed Healthcare Providers, recently donated to the ACDIS Forms & Tools Library (www.acdis.org)....Read More »
Each year, four new Advisory Board members step forward to lend leadership to the ACDIS membership, and four trusted members take a step back from their roles. These board members shared their thoughts on the growth of ACDIS and the CDI profession as a whole during their three-year tenure on the...Read More »
The following is a condensed, step-by-step guide that can be used for hospitalwide ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation, but contains additional details for CDI departments involved with ICD-10 training. It is updated to reflect the new ICD-10 compliance date of October 1, 2014.Read More »
CDI professionals see a lot of physician documentation—not all of it good or pretty. A few annoying and troublesome problems fall into the “bad” or “ugly” categories. Describing a few of these worrisome practice patterns and identifying ways to improve...Read More »
We all agree: Better medical record documentation helps the patient, the physician, and the hospital. So why do we have so much trouble getting physicians to implement suggestions made by the CDI staff?
If your facility is anything like mine, provider...Read More »
On April 17, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule to delay the ICD-10 code set implementation date from October 1, 2013, to October 1, 2014. In a letter, the ACDIS Advisory Board encouraged members to “stay the course with ICD-9 and ICD-10 documentation...Read More »
Editor’s note: The following individuals were recently chosen to lead local ACDIS chapters in their areas. ACDIS currently has more than 40 local chapters across the country and is helping to facilitate additional networking efforts for CDI professionals in specialty areas. For...Read More »
