Outpatient is like inpatient, but completely different.
That may sound like a contradiction, but here’s what it means: On the one hand, many of the same tools and titles are employed in the outpatient and inpatient settings. For instance, you will still...Read More »
The biggest obstacles to organizational change and improvement are often the people who are responsible for the decisions related to implementing improvement efforts. Why is there so much resistance to change? Change is always stressful and not always for...Read More »
Arguably one of the most exciting characteristics of the CDI industry is just how many untapped veins of gold there are to discover within it. Some settings and service lines remain largely untouched, but others, such as pediatric CDI, show great promise,...Read More »
The good word of CDI has spread across the nation over the last few decades, and more recently crossed borders to a friendly place known for its maple syrup and moose! While not everything CDI can be translated cleanly over national borders, our neighbor Canada...Read More »
Examinations bring a lot of anxiety and stress, whether they are 10 minutes in person for a Q&A session or four hours of digital clicking. I was sailing in the same boat a month back when I took my CCDS certification exam in the last...Read More »
The first key to mounting a successful documentation improvement initiative is to understand the most valuable commodity to all providers: time. This is true within both the inpatient and outpatient realms. Anything that increases a...Read More »
Mary Alice Dewees, BSN, RN, CCDS, CRC, is the director of CDI and professional billing audit and education at Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut. This fall, she will have been in CDI for 15 years.
ACDIS: What did you do before entering CDI and how did you get into...Read More »
