Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS, co-leader of the Kansas City, Missouri, local chapter leaders, wrote this letter to her chapter members to encourage new volunteer speaker involvement and to highlight the benefits of volunteering. Leaders can adapt the letter and use it to encourage...Read More »
A couple weeks ago when ACDIS Director Brian Murphy was asked what’s new about this year’s conference. He replied “everything.” If you’re still on the fence and haven’t committed to coming this year,...Read More »
ACDIS is proud to debut the CCDS-O certification. The CCDS-O exam will be live in more than 300 proctored, secure testing sites across the country starting Monday, April 22.Read More »
When the CDI team at LHS in Portland, Oregon, began to develop a record review process and documentation standards, they quickly discovered that there were no clear formal industry standards. In an effort to streamline and standardize the CDI review and documentation process, LHS undertook a...Read More »
The ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board (CAB) includes a dozen volunteers with various levels of experience serving local chapters and networking groups.Read More »
To our ACDIS members and CDI professionals interested in the CCDS and CCDS-O examinations,
Below please find an official release from our testing partner PSI regarding additional safety measures being put into place at our more than 300 testing centers nationwide as a result...Read More »
I received an email from a CCDS holder recently whose certification was about to expire. She said she had not received any email reminders from us. I confirmed her email address is the same one I have in the CCDS database.
Unlike the inpatient CDI world, there aren’t many outpatient tracking tools premade and available through vendors, so newly minted programs are often left to develop and rollout homegrown solutions. Developing an outpatient CDI tracking tool can be a long, arduous, and sometimes overwhelming...Read More »