CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 22

Journal excerpt: CDI’s role in building a gender-inclusive EHR

June 2, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management

Historically, EHRs have tended to only include one indication of gender: the gender a patient was assigned at birth. While many patients identify as their birth-assigned gender and are thus correctly represented by this indicator, this may not be the case for patients who are transgender or part...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 22

Local chapter update: Local chapter members get discount on new ACDIS memberships

June 2, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

According to the official chapter agreement form, chapter members who wish to join ACDIS national may do so at a discounted rate. This discount is meant to encourage participation of chapter members with the national association. To take advantage of this discount, individual chapter members...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

Note from the Product Coordinator: Our library is growing in 2022—is yours?

May 26, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

​by Karla Accorto

As Rebecca Hendren, ACDIS director of programming, said in her note last week, the ACDIS team really feels like we’re entering a new year now that the 2022 conference...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

News: A quarter of physicians report experiencing mistreatment at work

May 26, 2022
News, Policies & Procedures

A survey of physicians found that a significant portion experienced mistreatment in the prior year, with patients and visitors the most common source of abuse, according to research published in the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

News: Avoiding abbreviations increases patient understanding of health records, study shows

May 26, 2022
News, Policies & Procedures

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Open Network found that patients’ overall comprehension scores were significantly greater when the medical...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

News: NQF and Humana release paper calling for new risk adjustment model

May 26, 2022
Clinical & Coding, News

In a recent joint paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the National Quality Forum (NQF) and Humana called for a new risk adjustment model that accounts for both clinical factors and social...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

Q&A: Determining systolic versus diastolic heart failure

May 26, 2022
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

​Q: Is there a cut off for EF to determine if it is truly a systolic HF or diastolic HF?Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 21

ACDIS update: New Regulatory Committee hot topics posted, survey responses on diabetes requested

May 26, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

The ACDIS Regulatory Committee recently published an update to one of their previous hot topic postings focused on diabetes mellitus that is uncontrolled. Head to the “...Read More »

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