CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 50

ACDIS update: One more week to apply for an ACDIS CDI Scholarship!

November 7, 2024
ACDIS Guidance

Do you like books? Tweed? Corduroy jackets and dusty library shelves around the fireplace? Existential discussions over hors d’oeuvres in a small café?

Well, it sounds like you might just be a scholar…

If you need some assistance reaching your educational goals, we highly...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 50

Local chapter update: Use the Local Chapter Request Form to request help filling speaker slots!

November 7, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Education

In need of a resource or a speaker to help facilitate your next meeting? Have no fear: the Local Chapter Request Form is here!

Through this form, you can contact the ACDIS team and request help finding a...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

Note from the Editorial Manager: No tricks, all treats on the 2025 ACDIS conference agenda

October 31, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Karla Kozak

Happy Halloween, ACDIS community, and no, this isn’t a trick: The agenda for the 2025 ACDIS national conference is now available!

In between greeting trick-or-treaters and sneaking a Reese’s pumpkin (...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

News: AI tool for hospitals fabricates text in transcription, researchers say

October 31, 2024
Clinical & Coding, News

Amidst the many artificial intelligence (AI) tools introduced to improve documentation accuracy, one version of the AI-powered transcription tool called Whisper is being used by over 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems to translate and transcribe patients’ consultations with doctors,...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

News: Falling associated with increased risk for future dementia diagnosis, study says

October 31, 2024
Clinical & Coding, News

New Alzheimer disease and related dementia diagnoses were more common after falls compared with other forms of traumatic injury, according to a retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

News: Two trials survey optimal timeline of DOAC initiation after stroke in AF

October 31, 2024
Clinical & Coding, News

The long-standing debate as to when to start anticoagulation in such patients appears to be settled, Medscape Medical News reported.Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

Q&A: New ‘Other obesity’ codes

October 31, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: As you can imagine, the coding and CDI world is abuzz with all the recent guidelines and code changes for fiscal year 2025 ICD-10-CM. For us specifically, the new obesity codes. The new codes are described as classifications for E66.8, Other obesity. ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 49

ACDIS update: Submit your Achievement Award nominations, poster proposals by the end of the year!

October 31, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

With 2024 drawing to a close, ACDIS is hard at work preparing for the new year including the awards and poster presentations we are privileged to facilitate each year at the ACDIS national conference! If you are looking to recognize your...Read More »

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