CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Case study: All backgrounds welcome

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Linnea Archibald
At CDI’s beginnings, many organizations housed their efforts within the health information management (HIM) department, staffing up with coding and HIM specialists as those individuals were already familiar with reviewing documentation and code assignment rules...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Guest column: Diversity and inclusion: A commitment to removing barriers

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Jessica Risner, BSN, RN, CCDS
Did you know that the ACDIS Code of Ethics emphasizes diversity and inclusion? Clause nine states:

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CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Guest column: Men in nursing

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Steven L. Griffin, DNP, RN, CCM, CCDS
A man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, then departed, leaving him half dead. Then a Samaritan man traveling down the same road came to where the man was. When he saw him...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Note from the Director of Programming: Reflections on ACDIS’ past, present, and future

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Rebecca Hendren
One of my favorite pastimes is reflecting on experiences and thinking about them through the viewpoint of where I am now. For example, I think back to the 21-year-old woman who fell in love with a man from a different country and decided to move to a new country...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Guest column: Expanding CDI opportunities for immigrants

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Ami S. Vyas, MBBS, MPH, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, CHFP, CRCR, CICA, CSBI, CSMC
As a field, CDI in the United States has a particularly high number of foreign medical professionals, myself included. Often, when coming to work in CDI here, these professionals find it challenging to locate...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Meet a Member: She never expected to find her ‘forever’ career

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

Crystal Incorvaia, RN, CCDS, CRCR, is a regional manager of CDI with Ensemble in Blue Ash, Ohio. She has been in the CDI field for 10 years and is currently a member of the ACDIS Leadership Council and the Forms and Tools Library Committee.

ACDIS: What did you do...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 2

Download the March/April 2022 edition of the CDI Journal!

March 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

FEATURES
6 Team development strategies
12 Case study: Higher education leads to more open doors
22 Make learning fun
28 Medals of recognition...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 16, Issue 2

Note from the Editorial Director: New opportunities for ACDIS involvement

January 13, 2022

by Melissa Varnavas

It was a cold January day in 1961, 61 years ago next week. The words “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for country,” uttered over the inauguration podium, resonating across the airwaves. Now, repeated a thousand times, and a...Read More »

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