FEATURES 8 Implementing physician-facing technology to reduce query burden 14 Case study: CDI, revenue integrity, and the creation of an epilepsy monitoring unit 20 ...Read More »
Each year, ACDIS surveys its membership and the greater CDI community to take the pulse of the industry on hot topics. Among the challenges cited in the 2025 ACDIS Membership—and nearly every year before it—provider engagement remains one of the top three...Read More »
by Priscilla Marlar, MHA, CSSBB, CPHQ, and John W. Cromwell, MD
Do you remember playing the game “Telephone” in grade school? The teacher would line us up and give the first student a spoken prompt to whisper to the next student, and so it would go until the message reached the...Read More »
As the profession’s relevance grows in the healthcare sphere, a CDI program’s efforts to improve the accuracy of clinical documentation reach far beyond the queries they send. Organizations benefit when the goals of CDI are incorporated into their physician...Read More »
What are some of the only things in life that people can't take away from you? Education and knowledge. Once achieved, they are indelible. Not only can lifelong learning fuel one’s personal growth and development, but it can also...Read More »
A good dish can and should stand on its own. But everyone knows that certain combinations—peanut butter and jelly, fruit and chocolate, burger and fries—enhance each other’s flavors so famously that the English language has adopted them as shorthand. If two things...Read More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized healthcare operations, offering speed and efficiency in tasks like clinical documentation review and insurance appeals. However, in a field where precision drives reimbursement and...Read More »
As a CDI professional, you’re likely familiar with the alphabet soup of regulations impacting your day-to-day work—IPPS, OPPS, MPFS, and more. But perhaps you are less familiar with bigger laws passed further upstream: laws that eventually make their way...Read More »
