As Robert S. Gold, MD, co-founder of DCBA, Inc. and founding ACDIS Advisory Board member, was fond of saying, “Pediatric medicine is not adult medicine for little adults.”Read More »
As with any profession, many unique individuals make up the pediatric CDI field. Since pediatrics represents a relatively new area for CDI, ACDIS spent some time chatting with “the proud and the few,” as Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CDI specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky,...Read More »
The 2017 ACDIS Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey uncovered a number of tidbits about the query process, but the survey also probed the state of remote CDI programs. While 40.8% of respondents cited having some sort of remote CDI option, 36.03% of respondents reported having some sort of...Read More »
by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
Many CDI and coding professionals let out a sigh of relief when the First Quarter 2017 edition of AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS arrived—it’s only 52 pages long, a novella compared to the voluminous tomes of previous editions. I looked at...Read More »
Robert S. Hodges, MSN, BSN, RN, VHA-CM, CCDS, acting VISN 10 clinical documentation improvement program lead and currently works as a quality, safety, and value RN/CDIS at the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Saginaw, Michigan. He will soon be moving to a new position as the clinical lead for...Read More »
By Susan Wallace, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, FAHIMA
Believe it or not, the Federal Register is one of the best crystal balls to foresee the future of CDI.Read More »
Take a look through this edition of CDI Journal and note how many of CDI programs focused on quality also aim to capture some of the diagnoses already on most CDI programs’ top 10 lists. Through case examples and expert analysis, the March/April edition shows you how to "Take a closer...Read More »
