CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced the delay of the deadline for implementation of the interoperability final rule, reported...Read More »
CMS announced that it is granting exceptions from reporting requirements and extensions for clinicians and providers participating in Medicare quality reporting programs with respect to upcoming measure reporting and data submission. The action comes as part of the response to the novel...Read More »
ECRI Institute recently published its annual list of the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns. The goal of this list is to help facilities’ efforts for proactively identifying and responding to threats to patient safety.
ECRI notes that this list was created before the COVID-19 outbreak...Read More »
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign published new pediatric guidelines in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine earlier this month. Sepsis assessment and management in children has its own set of challenges, as most children who have symptoms of sepsis do not actually have sepsis. For example,...Read More »
Healthcare systems are beginning to make notable investments in community programs to address social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a recent study by Health Affairs.
For the study, Health Affairs searched for all public announcements of programs involving...Read More »
FEATURES 6 Interdepartmental collaboration for denials management 14 CDI leaders’ perspective on denials management 22 Sepsis and malnutrition denials
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by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
I'm writing this a few weeks before Halloween, but I'm already feeling haunted. The spirit in question is the ghost of the ACDIS conference, our annual springtime gathering in the city where everything that happens stays there as long as nobody...Read More »
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, CDI specialists play a crucial part in the effort to accurately track the public’s health. As the link between clinicians and coders, CDI professionals are uniquely positioned to provide support to both...Read More »
