by Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS
Patient safety and quality of care are forerunning concerns for organizations today. Not only do we want to ensure our patients are receiving high-quality care, we want to ensure care is safe and effective. We need to examine how...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization is having problems with recurrent hospitalizations for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations, you are not alone. In fact, this is a national problem that has escaped solution despite everyone’s best...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization isn’t reviewing all in-hospital mortality cases, you’re missing some tremendous opportunities. While many facilities have been doing mortality reviews for a decade or more, there are still many facilities that do...Read More »
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 »