The Forms & Tools Committee recently met to review several recently submitted materials for publication in the ACDIS Resource Library. These newly posted sample materials are all available for free to ACDIS members
Our first Quarterly Conference Call of 2021 will take place on Thursday,February 18 at 1 p.m. eastern. During this call, ACDIS staff and a panel of CDI professionals will review the results of the 2020 CDI Salary Survey along with CDI productivity expectations...Read More »
by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
Socrates tells us that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” We might do better than to take advice from a man so disliked by his fellow Athenians that he was forced to drink hemlock, and whose final words were an ironic request to sacrifice...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization is having problems with recurrent hospitalizations for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations, you are not alone. In fact, this is a national problem that has escaped solution despite everyone’s best...Read More »
Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is the director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the social media coordinator for the North Carolina ACDIS local chapter, and she has been a...Read More »
FEATURES 6 Strategies for CDI new hires 10 Case study: CDI in Canada 17 Staff appreciation and retention 20 Case study: Leadership transitions...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
My first few days on the ACDIS team were filled with terms I’d never heard, abbreviations and acronyms I couldn’t decipher. As time went on, however, my knowledge incrementally increased, and I began “speaking the language” of CDI conversationally. It’s been...Read More »