Note from the ACDIS Editor: Get insight on quality efforts in the new CDI Journal edition!
by Jess Fluegel
Over time, CDI efforts have naturally evolved to include representing quality of care accurately—for some CDI programs, this has even become the primary focus of their chart reviews. Given how quality data can improve an organization’s care, reputation, and compensation all at once, we can only expect this trend to continue.
To better understand CDI’s inherent relationship with quality data and health equity, we’ve dedicated this last 2025 edition of the CDI Journal to quality measures, how equity impacts outcomes, and how you can get further involved at your organization.
In this edition, readers will find articles about:
- How DEI can enhance CDI efforts, programs, and careers
- Education and coordination in HEDIS measures
- SDOH from academic medical centers to community outreach
- How to deepen your CDI quality reviews
- An overview of SDOH and their impact on health outcomes
- Steps CDI programs can take to clarify problem list sequencing
- What CDI professionals need to know about the 2026 IPPS final rule
- How to build an alliance between coders and CDI
The ACDIS team hopes you enjoy this latest edition and find something helpful in its pages. As always, the CDI Journal is a benefit of ACDIS membership. To learn more about joining ACDIS, click here. ACDIS members can earn one CCDS/CCDS-O CEU for reading each edition of the Journal and taking the associated quiz. You can learn more on the full edition download page.
Our next edition’s topic will be provider engagement and interdepartmental collaboration! Contributing to the CDI Journal is a great opportunity for CDI professionals to share insight with the community, plus you can receive 0.5 CEUs per 350 published words (articles tend to be around the 750-1,500-word mark). If you have advice to share on collaboration between departments, taking provider engagement to the next level, or a similar topic, we’d love to receive your submission.
The deadline for the January/February edition is December 1, 2025! You can send your submissions via this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CDI-journal.
We hope this edition helps you and your CDI program improve quality data accuracy and helps further deepen your understanding of quality measures! Please reach out to me if you have any questions or are interested in writing for our next Journal edition.
Editor’s note: Fluegel is an editor for ACDIS. Contact her at jess.fluegel@hcpro.com.