ACDIS hit a number of milestones in the last year—5,000 members, 3,400 CCDS holders, nearly 2,000 conference attendees. While we’re excited to see our numbers grow, every now and then, we’re contacted by a member unaware of the resources available to them. We want you to be able to make the most...Read More »
AHIMA recently published a clinical validation practice brief in the July 2016 Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, available to AHIMA members on ...Read More »
Kay Kolb RN, MSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Kettering Health Network in Ohio has done a little bit of everything before entering CDI in 2003.Read More »
With the release of the 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule on August 2, 2016, CMS announced a delay in implementation of the NOTICE act. CMS is submitting a revised version of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON...Read More »
Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine, California, has worked in CDI since 2008 after serving as a pediatric nurse for 10 years and an ER nurse for 11.
The newly proposed Sepsis-3 definition has been the subject of great controversy and consternation since its publication in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on February 23, 2016. That controversial definition discarded...Read More »
Like dozens of other attendees at this year’s ACDIS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Mercedita Morales, RN, BSN stopped by our booth to sign up for an ACDIS membership. Little did she know that she would be the 5,000th person to become a part of our association. A CDI...Read More »
Prior to taking a job as a CDI specialist at United States Navy Hospital in Okinawa, Japan, Jedida Wachira, RN, CDIP, worked for a...