The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Sep- tic Shock published new clinical guidelines for diagnosing sepsis, dubbed Sepsis-3, earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Although CMS chose not to adopt the new criteria in a...Read More »
I am the CDI liaison and a DRG coordinator for Maine Medical Center in Portland, the largest hospital in the state with 637 beds. I chose my coding career path in high school, but I had no idea what I wanted to study in...Read More »
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 »
