ACDIS has made the difficult and unprecedented decision to postpone the 13th annual ACDIS conference, scheduled to take place May 5-8, 2020, at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. We are working to reschedule the event to the fall, with a new date expected in the coming weeks.Read More »
As healthcare organizations nationwide prepare and begin to deal with the growing COVID-19 pandemic, CDI professionals are faced with new documentation challenges, on top of adapting to remote work and engaging increasingly overwhelmed physicians. To help CDI professionals adapt, ACDIS has...Read More »
CDI is a mix of three categories blended into one, according to Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education specialist with ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. These three categories are:
The first week of the month is typically the time when ACDIS CDI Education Director Laurie Prescott and I spend with our PROPELCDI clients during their regular educational calls. It’s always heartwarming when an attendee expresses...Read More »
Coral Fernandez, RN, CCDS, CCS, is a CDI auditor/educator at Baptist Health System, and a co-chair of the ACDIS CDI educators networking group. She’s been in the CDI field for 20 years, spending the first 16 as a CDI specialist before moving into her current role four years ago.Read More »
The ACDIS Provider Engagement Series is chugging along with more great content. We hope you’ve been taking advantage of it right along, but in case you’ve missed what the ACDIS advisory board has been working on the past several months I thought I’d provide a...Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a set of strategies to lower the EHR burdens on clinicians to help them “focus their attention on patients rather than paperwork.”
The report, required by the 21st Century Cures Act, was developed by the Office of the...Read More »
