This past month was a busy one on the ACDIS Forum. From outpatient CDI, to clinical and coding, to pediatrics, the Forum had a conversation for everyone in every type of CDI program.Read More »
Over the past week, ACDIS asked its members to choose a theme for CDI Week 2017. Every year, facilities across the country celebrate the efforts of their CDI programs for one week in September. This year’s event takes place September 18-22. To help facilitate the festivities, ACDIS chooses an...Read More »
ACDIS requires the Local Chapter leaders to sign and return an agreement form annually. Though it may seem like a hassle at first, the agreement form provides a valuable framework for a chapter’s structure and formalizes the relationship between ACDIS National and the Local Chapters.Read More »
CMS recently released its Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) with statistics from the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 for short-term acute care hospitals nationwide.Read More »
CMS released the final 2018 ICD-10-CM code set for October 1 implementation this week. The update includes codes relating to cardiac conditions, substances, and myocardial infarctions (MI)—to name a few.Read More »
Researchers studying ED visits at a freestanding academic children’s hospital from June 1, 2013, to May 31, 2015, found that electronic alerts help reduce missed pediatric sepsis diagnoses by 76%,...Read More »
