ACDIS Guidance

by James Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP

AHIMA recently published a clinical validation practice brief in the July 2016 Journal of the...Read More »

Tomorrow (Friday, August 12), we’ll open up speaking applications for the 2017 ACDIS conference.  Our 2017 program, which takes place May 9-12, at...Read More »

Kay Kolb RN, MSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Kettering Health Network in Ohio has done a little bit of everything before entering...Read More »

Q: Does the provider have to say "acute" exacerbation of COPD or just COPD exacerbation?

A: The best way to figure out the required wording...Read More »

The newly proposed Sepsis-3 definition has been the subject of great controversy and consternation since its publication in The Journal of the...Read More »

by Rebecca Hendren

ACDIS undertakes an industry survey each year that analyzes trends in CDI so we can report on where the...Read More »

Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine,...Read More »

In ACDIS’ early years, there were only three or four state, or regionally, focused networking groups. Those groups gathered a dozen or two dozen...Read More »

The theme for the sixth annual CDI Week celebration (which takes place September 19-23)  totally rocks! This year, our theme is “CDI...Read More »

What’s the biggest issue related to for reporting respiratory failure diagnoses? It all starts with the definition, said Robert Stein, MD...Read More »