Many of you know and love the CDI Pocket Guide, our annual reference resource that many CDI departments consider indispensable. So this week we’re asking, how do you use your CDI Pocket Guide?Read More »
There’s still time to honor that special colleague who helped make a difference at your facility, someone who made significant contributions to the CDI field, or is an outspoken advocate of CDI! The deadline for ACDIS Achievement Award nominations has been extended to Friday, February 17, 2017...Read More »
The 2017 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines to be published in the March 2017 issue of Critical Care Medicine have adopted the 2016 Sepsis-3 definition of...Read More »
Even after Medicare officials agreed that seniors cannot be denied coverage for physical therapy and other care based on their condition not improving,...Read More »
Intensive care units are expensive, invasive, and supposed to be reserved for the sickest hospital patients, but more than half the time, they're not needed, according to research from LA BioMed and UCLA,...Read More »
The 2017 updates to ICD-10-CM included many additions to the digestive system diagnoses, especially with codes for pancreatitis and intestinal infections. The codes largely focus on the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract, according to an article published in...Read More »
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the joint Tennessee Health Information Management Association/Tennessee ACDIS local chapter meeting. The Tennessee Hospital Association kindly hosted the all-day event at their wonderful facility in Brentwood. The theme of the meeting was ...Read More »
