CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 1

Note from ACDIS: Happy New Year!

January 2, 2020
ACDIS Guidance

The ACDIS team would like to wish you the happiest of New Years! The new year is a time for reflection and in that spirit, this edition of CDI Strategies features a highlight of our most popular articles from 2019. Enjoy!

We hope you all had a lovely holiday break and are excited...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Download the January/February 2020 edition of the CDI Journal!

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion

FEATURES
9 Taking your first step in outpatient CDI
15 Don’t let behavior health reviews psych you out
20 Go big, or go home health
27 CDI in skilled...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 1

2019 CDI Strategies roundup

January 2, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management, News

Welcome to 2020! How are you liking it so far? Here at ACDIS we’re back in the office after a nice holiday break and ready to get back to work, making this year even greater than the last. What better way to kick off the new decade than by looking back at the most loved CDI Strategies...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Note from the Associate Events Director: Practicing the art of listening

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management

by Melissa Varnavas
I was reading this article online about responding to the question “tell me about yourself” in a job interview. The best answer to this question, wrote Gary Burnison, came from a woman who’d managed to hike the seven highest summits in the world. You can read...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Advisory Board Insight: Tackling CDI’s biggest challenge—Innovative physician engagement tactics

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

As mentioned in CDI Strategies, the ACDIS Advisory Board is working on a year-long project focused on tackling the CDI profession’s number one problem: physician engagement and education. To kick off the conversation—which will ultimately include a series of surveys, white papers, and...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Taking your first step in outpatient CDI

January 1, 2020
CDI Expansion, Outpatient CDI

“Outpatient CDI isn’t just inpatient CDI in an emergency department or clinic,” wrote ACDIS Director Brian Murphy in an article regarding the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI in Austin, Texas. “It’s a different skillset, and it’s a different mindset.”

In it, Murphy explains how...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Podcast Recap: Preventing physician burnout

January 1, 2020
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Between 35% and 54% of doctors and nurses experience burnout, according to a report issued by the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). The report found an estimated 60% of interns and...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 14, Issue 1

Don’t let behavioral health reviews psych you out

January 1, 2020
CDI Expansion

Why delve into psychiatric record review?

For some programs, the expansion into psychiatric units or facilities may be driven by the needs of the patient population, says Rhonda Mark, RN, BS, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero Beach,...Read More »

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