If you were unable to attend the 2024 ACDIS conference in Indianapolis or attended alone and found yourself picking between too many excellent sessions, ...Read More »
Are there changes you’d like to see or new ideas you have for ACDIS or the CDI community? Through the efforts of our ACDIS committees, this association has continuously improved and grown its resources, guidance, and support to help everyone in the profession succeed. If you want to make a...Read More »
March is “National Nutrition Month,” according to a recent release from CMS. CDI departments can take advantage of the national push to raise awareness of obesity and malnutrition by tyingdocumentation improvement efforts into the national initiative.
Physicians resist change. They fear it. Although comfortable reading medical literature, and comfortable improving patient care with new techniques and medications, having CDI professionals “educate” physicians about improving their documentation...Read More »
CDI professionals see a lot of physician documentation—not all of it good or pretty. A few annoying and troublesome problems fall into the “bad” or “ugly” categories. Describing a few of these worrisome practice patterns and identifying ways to improve...Read More »
Linnea Thennes, RN, BS, CCDS, works at Centegra Health System, a two-hospital system in Northern Ilinois that has plans to add a third facility. She is one of the founding members of the Northern Illinois CDI Network, which began in March 2008. Thennes is very proud to have been among the group...Read More »
