by Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
I’m starting this missive the day after Super Bowl LIV, and my hometown Kansas City Chiefs have emerged from five decades of futility and brought home the win. So, it’s understandable that my Facebook feed is full of Chiefs-related content,...Read More »
We’re having a lot of discussions lately on whether we should query for pressure injuries when they’re only documented by nursing. Our wound care nurses determined that staff nurses identify pressure injuries correctly only 60% of the time. If we’re querying based on nursing documentation, our...Read More »
ACDIS is pleased to start the new year with the debut of the Provider Engagement Series.
Written in collaboration with the ACDIS advisory board, this series is intended to discuss the why and how of provider engagement, and the critical role it plays in the success of CDI initiatives.Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
Back when I served as the editor of my hometown newspaper, I was lucky enough to attend a special conference put on by the American Press Institute (API) on the challenges facing the journalism industry. The challenges were many—slumping sales of print editions...Read More »
Within the constantly evolving healthcare landscape, physicians are under more and more pressure to not only provide exceptional patient care and correctly diagnose patients, but also undertake an increasing amount of administrative tasks. A recent study published in the...Read More »
Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CCDS-O, CCS-P, CRC, is a CDI professional at Penn Highlands Healthcare in DuBois, Pennsylvania. He has been in the CDI field for just over four years.
ACDIS: What did you do before entering CDI?
Simpson: For more...Read More »
As mentioned in CDI Strategies, the ACDIS Advisory Board is working on a year-long project focused on tackling the CDI profession’s number one problem: physician engagement and education. To kick off the conversation—which will ultimately include a series of surveys, white papers, and...Read More »