I was looking through old drafts of blog posts and came upon some notes from ACDIS blogger Linda Renee Brown. She wrote that sometimes CDI professionals look for expert advice and that once they identify it, they follow it to the letter. But “What’s an expert...Read More »
This October celebrates the eight month anniversary of the February release of the intellectually stimulating, yet controversial, third international consensus ...Read More »
When Karen Elmore, RN, BSN, CCDS, documentation quality coordinator at Boone Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, was asked to help start a CDI program at her facility nearly eight years ago, she knew her background as a nurse educator would pay off.Read More »
A CFO will typically see the potential of program expansion quickly. The CDI program manager or administrator simply needs to demonstrate the current effectiveness of the program’s efforts compared to the potential benefits of an expanded program—a cost-benefit...Read More »
After several years working as an agency nurse, doing a little bit of everything, from occupational health to psychiatric to home health to case management, Jessica Ward RN, BSN, C-CDI CDI specialist at Madison Health in London, Ohio, was ready for a change.Read More »
ACDIS is excited to introduce the newest member of the ACDIS team— Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CCDS, AHIMA-Approved ICD 10 CM/PCS Trainer is joining us as our newest CDI Education Specialist and will serve as an instructor in our CDI boot camps.