September was a busy month for ACDIS local chapters. Last week alone there were meetings in Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, and Oklahoma. In Georgia, attendees got into the CDI Week spirit with a superhero photobooth and in Virginia members leveraged the...Read More »
As part of the tenth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Nancy Franciotti, BS, RN, CCDS, the CDI manager at Inspira Health, member of the Philadelphia/Southern New...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Ashley Chamberland, BSN, RN, CPN, who is the lead ambulatory CDI specialist at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in...Read More »
by Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC
In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding,...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Keri Miller, RN, BSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at McLaren Healthcare in Lansing, Michigan, a member of the Michigan ACDIS local...Read More »
More than once, I have observed providers document both depression and bipolar disorder together. Although these diagnoses share similarities, they are not interchangeable.
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Rachelle Buol, RHIA, the director of coding and CDI at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of the 2019 CDI Week...Read More »
Sepsis-3 is celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and while it can be hard to judge the success or failure of a child until it’s forty, one can at least take an early look to make sure the kid isn’t tearing wings off flies. So, what do we...Read More »