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 »
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 expiration date for this activity is January 1, 2017. You must complete your online quiz...Read More »
During a conversation regarding what basic elements CDI programs need at the onset in order to be successful, ACDIS Advisory Board member Wendy De Vreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS, MBA, Director Case Management Case Management and Clinical Social Work
University of...Read More »
I was looking through old drafts of blog posts and came upon some notes from ACDIS blogger Linda Renee Brown. She wrote that sometimes CDI professionals look for expert advice and that once they identify it, they follow it to the letter. But “What’s an expert...Read More »
