In case you missed it, on February 11 ACDIS hosted a webinar titled ACDIS Insights: The second surge impact of COVID-19 on CDI. This free 90-minute webinar took an in-depth look at the results of ACDIS’ COVID-19 second surge impact survey, reviewing the results of 13 questions...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
My parents transferred me from public school to Catholic school in second grade. We were Methodists at the time. That year, my Catholic school counterparts were earning their first communion bona fides. During such lessons, I was left alone in the classroom...Read More »
The Forms & Tools Committee recently met to review several recently submitted materials for publication in the ACDIS Resource Library. These newly posted sample materials are all available for free to ACDIS members
Our first Quarterly Conference Call of 2021 will take place on Thursday,February 18 at 1 p.m. eastern. During this call, ACDIS staff and a panel of CDI professionals will review the results of the 2020 CDI Salary Survey along with CDI productivity expectations...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
Socrates tells us that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” We might do better than to take advice from a man so disliked by his fellow Athenians that he was forced to drink hemlock, and whose final words were an ironic request to sacrifice...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization is having problems with recurrent hospitalizations for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations, you are not alone. In fact, this is a national problem that has escaped solution despite everyone’s best...Read More »
Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is the director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the social media coordinator for the North Carolina ACDIS local chapter, and she has been a...Read More »
