Robin Jones, RN, BSN, MHA/Ed, CCDS, has a true passion for CDI. She’s been in the field since 2004, beginning her career as a CDI specialist. A few years later, she was promoted to manager. Now she serves as the system director at Mercy Health in Cincinnati, where she oversees...Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The...Read More »
Record numbers of people took the CCDS exam in December and early January before the new version of the exam took effect on January 18. In the period December 1 to January 16 alone, 355 people passed the exam and earned their CCDS.
Now, the focus is on the new exam and people want to...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD
Compliance represents one of the most important yet underappreciated goals of a CDI program. While my facility’s eight-year-old CDI project did not start out with compliance as an initial objective, we were able to identify and resolve its unintentional...Read More »
by Verona A. Lodholz, DC, MT(ASCP), CPC, CCDS
As you review all the numbers included in a complete blood count (CBC), are you gathering all the available information? Do you just look at the white blood count (WBC), hemoglobin (Hgb), hematocrit (Hct), H&H, and platelet count...Read More »
At ACDIS, it’s no surprise when we hear about clinical documentation improvement efforts extending to hospitals and organizations throughout the United States. But when we heard about an Australian hospital launching a CDI program—one of the first international programs of its kind—we were...Read More »
If we are to succeed in the transition to ICD-10, we need to dispel all myths about the new code set, be empathetic to physicians, and always offer support.Read More »
In the past 15 years at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida, there were two unsuccessful attempts to implement a CDI program. So when Joannie Crotts, RN, BSN, CPC, took on the project back in 2011, shortly after accepting her first CDI position, she had her hands...Read More »