by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization is having problems with recurrent hospitalizations for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations, you are not alone. In fact, this is a national problem that has escaped solution despite everyone’s best...Read More »
Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is the director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the social media coordinator for the North Carolina ACDIS local chapter, and she has been a...Read More »
The revenue cycle is a continuous complex wheel that impacts a healthcare organization’s bottom line. Connecting the dots between CDI and RCM is crucial to delivering both financial and patient outcomes.Read More »
FEATURES 6 Strategies for CDI new hires 10 Case study: CDI in Canada 17 Staff appreciation and retention 20 Case study: Leadership transitions...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
My first few days on the ACDIS team were filled with terms I’d never heard, abbreviations and acronyms I couldn’t decipher. As time went on, however, my knowledge incrementally increased, and I began “speaking the language” of CDI conversationally. It’s been...Read More »
Telemedicine use by patient condition and medical specialty during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic may shed light on deferred care, reported...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
A robust orientation program marks a great start of any job. This is especially true for a career in CDI. It’s not uncommon for a new CDI professional’s first introduction to the industry to come with their new position since so many hail from the worlds of bedside...Read More »
