Over the past week, ACDIS asked its members to choose a theme for CDI Week 2017. Every year, facilities across the country celebrate the efforts of their CDI programs for one week in September. This year’s event takes place September 18-22. To help facilitate the festivities, ACDIS chooses an...Read More »
ACDIS requires the Local Chapter leaders to sign and return an agreement form annually. Though it may seem like a hassle at first, the agreement form provides a valuable framework for a chapter’s structure and formalizes the relationship between ACDIS National and the Local Chapters.Read More »
Q:Should CDI take the criteria from the National Quality Forum (NQF), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) into consideration when querying for CAUTI,...Read More »
CMS recently released its Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) with statistics from the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 for short-term acute care hospitals nationwide.Read More »
CMS released the final 2018 ICD-10-CM code set for October 1 implementation this week. The update includes codes relating to cardiac conditions, substances, and myocardial infarctions (MI)—to name a few.Read More »
Researchers studying ED visits at a freestanding academic children’s hospital from June 1, 2013, to May 31, 2015, found that electronic alerts help reduce missed pediatric sepsis diagnoses by 76%,...Read More »
CMS may have paid $729 million in electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments that didn’t comply with the federal standards between May 2011 and June 2014, according to the Office of Inspector General (OIG),...Read More »