Many states have now passed emergency orders sending non-essential employees home to work remotely in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. In light of this, many organizations have sent their CDI teams home as they are not involved in direct patient care.Read More »
As the globe continues to cope with COVID-19, we are all operating under the constraints of our new reality. ACDIS local chapter volunteers, too, have needed to cancel and/or postpone many of their previously planned educational events. Please check the listings below for updated information and...Read More »
CDI is a mix of three categories blended into one, according to Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education specialist with ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. These three categories are:
As a child I always loved working on puzzles. As I grew older, they became larger, more complicated. I haven’t touched a jigsaw puzzle in years, but puzzles don’t always come in a box. The process of record review is a puzzle. The CDI specialist reviews the...Read More »
ECRI Institute recently published its annual list of the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns. The goal of this list is to help facilities’ efforts for proactively identifying and responding to threats to patient safety.
ECRI notes that this list was created before the COVID-19 outbreak...Read More »
Humana recently launched an initiative aimed to help clinicians address nonmedical health risk factors. The social determinants of health (SDOH) value-based program targets these nonmedical issues such as homelessness, inconsistent access to food, and housing instability, Healthcare Dive...Read More »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced during the March 18 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting that a new code specifically for reporting COVID-19 will be available for use starting on April 1, 2020. The code will be housed in Chapter 22, Codes for...Read More »
Q: We’re having some trouble with malnutrition documentation. In many instances, the patient meets the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) criteria and the provider agrees with the query, but then doesn’t expand on the diagnosis in their documentation. We’re then...Read More »
