Note from the ACDIS Editor: July/August Journal highlights the ways CDI professionals educate
by Linnea Archibald
CDI professionals are often compared to investigators—searching through patient records for missing pieces and assembling the full picture of the patient’s condition through the query process. While that analogy stands, when I speak with CDI professionals nationwide about their roles, I’m often struck by a different thought. CDI professionals—you—are really both the educators and the students. This profession requires that a love for learning and you helping others learn too.
Just as ACDIS centered an edition of the CDI Journal on the query process earlier this year, we wanted the July/August edition to focus on the other central piece of CDI professionals’ roles: education.
Within this edition’s pages, readers will learn about:
- Educating CDI staff and physicians on a strict budget
- Clinically integrating CDI professionals, even while remote
- CDI educator roles
- Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Leveraging your physician advisor
As always, this edition includes an article from associate editorial director about the current state of change we find ourselves in, guidance from a physician advisor, recommendations from a coding professional to clinicians, and advice from an ACDIS member.
The July/August edition also includes an in-depth summary of ICD-10-PCS Section X, answers from our members about helping staff improve their work-life balance, a clinical explanation of ischemic heart disease, and a celebration of CDI research related to resident education.
The ACDIS team hopes you enjoy this latest edition and find some helpful information to advance your CDI practice within its pages. The September/October edition of the CDI Journal will focus on leadership skills and career opportunities, so if you’d like to contribute, wish to share your CDI journey, or suggest an article idea, please feel free to email me.
Editor’s note: Archibald is the editor for ACDIS. Contact her at larchibald@acdis.org.