CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 9

Conference corner: Nominate your peers for an ACDIS Achievement Award

February 27, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, CDI Management

Do you know a CDI colleague who goes above and beyond to advance the CDI profession through their daily duties, helping their colleagues, and pushing forward CDI outcomes at your facility? Why not nominate them for one of this year’s ACDIS Achievement Awards?!Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 9

ACDIS update: Member benefits for the ACDIS Career Center

February 27, 2020
CDI Expansion, CDI Management

Did you know that along with access to Quarterly Calls with the ACDIS Advisory Board, opportunities to participate in an Official ACDIS Local Chapter in your area, and five free email signature images to celebrate certification statuses, as an ACDIS member you also get two free job...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 9

ACDIS update: Answer the latest ACDIS poll of sepsis criteria use

February 27, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding

Sepsis. It’s a favorite topic for CDI professionals everywhere for good reason. Not only is sepsis responsible for a large portion of hospitalized patients’ deaths, but it seems that coding, clinical, and auditing worlds can’t agree on the clinical definition of sepsis.

To deal with these...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 9

Local chapter update: Notes from the Puerto Rico ACDIS chapter

February 27, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

It’s always nice to hear about how local events are going. Last week, we heard from Carmen Ibarrondo, Revenue Cycle Management Director at Inmediata Health Integrated Solutions in Puerto Rico (PR) about her efforts to expand the island’s interest in CDI efforts. Ibarrondo, and her...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 14, Issue 8

Guest post: Identifying the source of truth

February 23, 2021
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS

Many are familiar with the scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s old-school marine tells Tom Cruise’s younger antagonist, “You can’t handle the truth!” My favorite application of that same line comes from Carl Reiner and Mel...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 8

Note from the ACDIS Editor: Celebrating CDI continuing education

February 20, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, Education

by Linnea Archibald

Not only has working with the ACDIS CDI Scholarship Committee and launching the program been a personal highlight but seeing the enthusiasm scholarship applicants have for the CDI profession has been truly inspiring. Each round of applicant reviews was harder...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 8

News: Surviving Sepsis Campaign publishes new pediatric guidelines

February 20, 2020
News, Policies & Procedures, Quality & Regulatory

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign published new pediatric guidelines in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine earlier this month. Sepsis assessment and management in children has its own set of challenges, as most children who have symptoms of sepsis do not actually have sepsis. For example,...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 8

News: CMS needs to provide more support to physician-led ACOs, report says

February 20, 2020
News

Though small physician-lead Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have shown success in reducing costs while improving quality, a new report from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy suggests that these ACOs need continuing and future support.

The report notes that ACOs would...Read More »

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