Annual Wellness Visits: Creating a Process Using CDI Specialists Tamara A. Hicks, RN, MHA, ACM-RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plus Sandra Love, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O...
Mastering the Art of Difficult Conversations Joan Peterson, MS, vice president, master facilitator, and leadership coach at Bluepoint Leadership Development, a division of Simplify Compliance LLC, in Brentwood, Tennessee
Everyone hates having difficult...
COUGH to Determine a Gram-Negative Pneumonia Adriana Cecchini, MSN, RN, CIC, CDI specialist at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
Participants will learn to use the COUGH acronym—a fun and easy way to evaluate the diagnosis of...
Understanding Risk Adjustment: Comparing Comorbidity Indices and Steps Toward Quality Improvements Cassi Birnbaum, MS, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA, enterprise senior director of CDI, coding, and HIM at PeaceHealth in Vancouver, Washington, and Cheryl Manchenton, RN, senior...
Leadership: The Highs and Lows of Developing and Retaining an Exceptional CDI Team Alison L. Bowlick, MHA, RN, CCDS, CRCR, assistant vice president of CDI at Ensemble Health Partners in Toledo, Ohio
Do you ever wonder what it really takes to not only lead a...
Outpatient CDI Metrics and Management on a Shoestring Budget Barbi Kantner, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, lead CDI outpatient specialist, and Lori LaFaver, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI director, at Reading Hospital-Tower Health System in West Reading, Pennsylvania
How do you...
Documentation Accuracy: Defining Quality as Process or an Outcome Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, CDI director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, chief clinical strategist at Iodine Software in Austin, Texas...
Why All the Confusion? The Fallacy of ICU Delirium Vajeeha Sadi-Ali, MD, CCDS, assistant professor of medicine and physician advisor for CDI at Audie Murphy VA Hospital, UT Health San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas, and Merle Zuel, RN, CCDS, RN advisor of CDI at Kansas...
Under the Microscope: The Focus Shift With Value-Based Purchasing Sonja Racke, RN, CPC, CRCR, senior director of CDI at Ensemble Health Partners in Blue Ash, Ohio
CMS has made drastic changes to the healthcare reimbursement system in the past 40 years. The...
A CDI Career Ladder: Encouraging Professional Development and Growing Leadership From Within Leyna Belcher, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, enterprise system CDI educator, Tonya E. Demyon, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, CDI manager, and Dawn Diven, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CDI system...
