A conversation with a CDI professional regarding their experiences with surgeons typically elicits an eyeroll followed by a disheartened sigh or groan. Surgeons are often the toughest contingent of any medical staff with which a CDI...Read More »
Alicia Mitchell, MSN, RN, CCDS, is the director of clinical documentation improvement at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky. She is a member of the Kentucky-Southern Indiana ACDIS local chapter.
ACDIS: How long have you been in the CDI field, and what did...Read More »
There is just over a week left to submit a poster to be displayed at the 2023 ACDIS national conference in Chicago. This is your chance to make your mark on the conference and show your peers how you and your CDI program have flourished.
by Linnea Archibald
Though it’s still a relatively new offering within ACDIS, the ACDIS CDI Leadership Council’s membership roster has grown to 300 members for the 2022/2023 term. In my opinion, one of the reasons the...Read More »
According to an RACmonitor ‘Monitor Mondays’ listener survey, most responders had not yet begun working on the quality requirements under the social drivers of the health (SDoH) measure despite its impending...Read More »
by Jess Fluegel
Starting a CDI program at a hospital or health system is a huge undertaking. Luckily, over the past few decades since the industry’s inception, frontrunners have become experts in decoding the DNA of a successful CDI program. From sharing example queries and...Read More »
Labor shortages, rising expenses, inflation, and the COVID-19 pandemic are all economic challenges that have contributed to an increase of large healthcare organization bankruptcy filings. In 2022, the number of fourth quarter large healthcare bankruptcy filings were nearly three times the...Read More »