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Grow Your Own Leaders: How CDI Career Ladders Help Your Staff Flourish
Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Dawn Diven, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP. This session brings together two experienced leaders from different organizations to discuss best practices for...
Centralized Management of CDI: Coming Together and Functioning as One Team
Andrea J. Eastwood, MA, RHIA, and Judy Moreau, MBA, RN, BSN. This session will describe Trinity Health’s journey to centralizing the management of its CDI programs. The speakers will...
Suma Chacko, MBA, RHIA, CCS, and Amanda Hughes, BSN, RN, CCDS, CIC. CDI professionals play an important role in ensuring high-quality clinical documentation through comprehensive concurrent medical record review and...
Watering the Seeds of Growth Through Collaboration
Elizabeth M. Aguirre, MD, CCDS, and Jared Brock, MBA. In this session, attendees will learn how to leverage collaboration to identify new opportunities, eliminate waste, and achieve growth within the program...
In a Post-COVID World: Growing a Clinical Documentation Team From the Ground Up
Johanne E. Brautigam, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Robin McKenzie, RN, CRCR. In the past few years, COVID-19 has changed the healthcare landscape, and CDI has changed with it. CDI specialists...
Flourishing by Design: Building Organizational Structure and Partnerships for a Flourishing CDI Department
Jessica Risner, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Beth Simms, BSN, RN, CCDS. CDI departments are subject to many forces of change: CMS, internal stakeholders, technology,...
Evolving Communication in a Changing Work Environment
Karen Lynn Armetta, RN, CCS, CCDS, and Sydney Neblett, CCS, CCDS. This session will review the changes one coding/CDI team implemented when transitioning to a fully remote functional unit. Attendees will learn...
