Last month on the ACDIS Blog

Did you know there’s a new CDI tip, trick, or post on the ACDIS Blog every day? In case you haven’t subscribed just yet, the ACDIS team put together a list of the articles you might have missed from the last month.

Here’s what’s been happening from August 1-August 31.

• ACDIS Tips:
  
  • A how-to on joining in on the discussions surrounding ACDIS articles
  • A how-to on saving articles for later on the ACDIS website
  • A how-to on registering for ACDIS Radio
• CDI Tips and Q&As:
  
  • A Q&A from Boot Camp Instructor Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CRC, on coding chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus
  • A Q&A about denials management teams from the Revenue Cycle Advisor
  • A tip of diversifying education to keep staff engaged from one of our e-learning experts, Amanda Southworth
  • Some tips for improving CDI-physician relationships from the Nurse Leader Insider
• ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI previews:
  
  • A Q&A with Yvonne Whitley, RN, BSN, CRCC, CPC, CRC, about ambulatory CDI
• Guest Posts:
  
  • A two-part series of articles from James Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, on altered mental status in ICD-10 (part two can be accessed here)
  • A two-part series of articles from Crystal Stalter, CPC, CCS-P, CDIP, on CDI and natural language processing (part two can be accessed here)
  • A guest post from Jocelyn E. Murray, RN, CCDS, about embracing the changes in CDI
  • A two-part series of articles from Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, about clinical validation (part two can be accessed here)
• Summer reading:
  
  • A book excerpt in a two-part series from Elizabeth Lamkin, MHA, ACHE, about CDI and coding standards and revenue cycle (the second part will be available on September 1)

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