ACDIS is proud to celebrate the 3,000th Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) credential holder, Rhonda Bisby, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDI specialist at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas.Read More »
CDI specialists may well be the superheroes of the healthcare industry—after all, they have the ability to adapt faster than changing government reimbursement initiatives, are stronger than the harshest physicians, and can leap through chart reviews like lightningRead More »
I attended several medical conferences recently with my husband, a physician, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that physicians were talking about things such as ICD-10, readmission rates, length of stay, and other topics familiar...Read More »
It’s a question asked by many new to the CDI field: “What is CDI?” When I first interviewed for the CDI editor position at ACDIS, I quickly Googled the term, finding translations like “customer data integration” and “capacitor discharge ignition.” Clearly, I...Read More »
Q: I recently took over a pre-existing, three-year-old program as its department manager and find myself in the unfavorable position of having to re-educate the CDI staff. It seems they were never trained on basic CDI principles such as querying for the etiology of the symptom(s...Read More »
Another tradition in my household is to take some time around the dinner table on New Year’s day to talk about some of the things we’re grateful for that happened to us in the year that passed. Such reminisces often raise interesting thoughts. All together as...Read More »
Over the past year, we’ve been asked numerous times about what it means to be an “advanced” CDI program. No forward-looking CDI program can truly advance unless (and until) a solid base is set—until it looks back over its program basics to ensure that its staff remains wellversed in query...Read More »
