Sepsis. It’s a favorite topic for CDI professionals everywhere for good reason. Not only is sepsis responsible for a large portion of hospitalized patients’ deaths, but it seems that coding, clinical, and auditing worlds can’t agree on the clinical definition of sepsis.
It’s always nice to hear about how local events are going. Last week, we heard from Carmen Ibarrondo, Revenue Cycle Management Director at Inmediata Health Integrated Solutions in Puerto Rico (PR) about her efforts to expand the island’s interest in CDI efforts. Ibarrondo, and her...Read More »
Many are familiar with the scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s old-school marine tells Tom Cruise’s younger antagonist, “You can’t handle the truth!” My favorite application of that same line comes from Carl Reiner and Mel...Read More »
Not only has working with the ACDIS CDI Scholarship Committee and launching the program been a personal highlight but seeing the enthusiasm scholarship applicants have for the CDI profession has been truly inspiring. Each round of applicant reviews was harder...Read More »
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign published new pediatric guidelines in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine earlier this month. Sepsis assessment and management in children has its own set of challenges, as most children who have symptoms of sepsis do not actually have sepsis. For example,...Read More »
Though small physician-lead Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have shown success in reducing costs while improving quality, a new report from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy suggests that these ACOs need continuing and future support.
New survey results from the American Medical Association (AMA) found that the number of physicians who use telehealth for visiting with patients has doubled between 2016 and 2019. However, the overall number of physicians using this technology remains low, with only 28% of the 1,300 surveyed...Read More »
I have a question about the guidance in the ACDIS/AHIMA “Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice” related to “reasonable” query response choices.Read More »
