By E.S. Damalie, MD, FACHE, FHFMA, RHIA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS
Every professional worth his or her salt needs to learn their trade and be very comfortable with the ins and outs of their profession. Such professionals also need to practice introspection about their limitations.Read More »
Diane Smith, RN, CCDS, a member of the Maine ACDIS Chapter, works at Pen Bay Medical Center in beautiful Rockport. A Connecticut native, she moved to Michigan but found she missed the east coast. On a trip to Maine she fell in love with the beauty of the area and the food. She talked her husband...Read More »
Local chapter leaders from all over the country showed their ACDIS pride on Day 2 of the national conference in Las Vegas last week. (Read more about them in the special conference daily.)
About a month after I joined ACDIS, in the fall of 2008, members began requesting information on how to network with other CDI professionals locally. A few enterprising volunteers in Massachusetts and Illinois actually had networking efforts in play, predating...Read More »
Editor’s note: Nicole F. Draper, RN, BN, MHA, DH-C, is the manager of length of stay, documentation, and revenue optimization at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. She presents “Measuring clinician engagement: The journey to...Read More »
Our eLearning Product Manager Chelsea Brookes will be in the ACDIS/HCPro booth at the 10th annual ACDIS conference on Wednesday, May 10 and Thursday, May 11, at 3 p.m. to talk about online Boot Camps and training courses.Read More »
Editor’s note: Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, is the manager of clinical documentation services at DHG Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a CDI subject matter expert for a variety of industry publications and keeps...Read More »