The ACDIS CDI Leadership Council exists to connect leaders nationwide (and even internationally!) for conversations about the hot topics and trends in the CDI industry. A smaller subset of the Council, the Mastermind group, provides participants with an opportunity for focused brainstorming and...
Years of growth have allowed CDI programs to put down deep roots and establish themselves as an indispensable part of an organization’s overall health. CDI programs are an invaluable piece of a healthy healthcare organization’s ecosystem, and their impact can be felt in far reaching areas, but...
With an expanding CDI program, Piedmont Health knew they had to make a change to ensure program success. That change was implementing advanced technology that allowed their team to focus on reviewing the most...
Quality metrics and measurements are a crucial and prominent feature of CDI work. Because claims data is increasingly used to determine performance metrics on quality measures, and because the clinical criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of a given patient are determined by the accuracy of...
Stepping into a leadership role can be an exciting development in a CDI professional’s career journey, but it can also be overwhelming and isolating. A leader’s responsibilities are varied and far-reaching and new leaders may feel they are underwater. Rather than treading water alone, leaders...
Years of growth have allowed CDI programs to put down deep roots and establish themselves as an indispensable part of an organization’s overall health. That maturity, however, does not mean CDI programs can rest on their laurels and become stagnant. Many professionals are drawn to CDI as a...
As CDI professionals work tirelessly on a tight budget, often with limited staffing resources available, they’re frequently faced with overwhelmed providers. To safeguard the bottom line and secure adequate resources to care for their patient population, many organizations are leaning on their...
It seems that denials have only been increasing over the years. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations simply cannot afford to hemorrhage money to unwarranted and unfounded denials. This imperative creates a natural entry point for CDI programs to help stem the tide. CDI...
For many years, clinical documentation integrity (CDI) was primarily a manual process, beginning with a specially trained nurse or coding professional who combed through paper medical records and retrospectively evaluated clinical evidence to identify...
