by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
I recently had a conversation with a CDI specialist working in Canada. The profession is very young there and has not had the benefit of the years of growth and resource building we have had in the United States. I found her...Read More »
As a hiring manager, when I am presented with candidates, they have already gone through a human resources (HR) screening, so I don’t see everyone that was poolside to begin with. If a candidate has made it past the...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
While technological solutions and EHRs have made leaps and bounds over the past years in the inpatient setting, there still seems to be much lacking on the outpatient side.
Outpatient services have a different timeline than inpatient, a different way of...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
While I don’t fully agree with the old saying that “if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind,” there is something to be said for moving in a direction instead of standing still. Many CDI departments begin their journeys reviewing for primarily CC/MCC...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
It’s always been easy to show financial return on investment for inpatient CDI endeavors, but the monetary value of outpatient programs is increasing dramatically year after year, making outpatient CDI reviews more attractive to many healthcare organizations....Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Pediatric CDI reviews require a different skill set than those in the traditional adult acute care space. Often, CDI professionals reviewing these specialized charts are islands within their overall CDI department, acting as the sole pediatric CDI reviewer....Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
CDI work in the home healthcare space is anything but basic, and while it shares some similarities with traditional inpatient CDI, it carries many nuances of its own. Sometimes, it may not even be called “CDI,” according to Sharon Litwin, RN, SHSH, MHA, HCS...Read More »
