Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Clinical Update Affecting DRG/HCC Assignment William E. Haik, MD, FCCP, CDIP, of DRG Review, Inc., in Fort Walton Beach, Florida
As gram-negative bacterial and staphylococcus pneumonias are now included in community-acquired...
Vascular Surgery & CDI: The Fantastic Voyage Johanne “Jo” Brautigam, BSN, RN, CCDS, and Joe Lintz, BSN, BS, RN, CCDS, Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina
Learn how to align the worlds of CDI, coding, and vascular surgery in this...
Exploring Why Sepsis Is Such a Problematic Diagnosis Cheryl Ericson, RN, CDIP, CCDS, Clinical Program Manager at Iodine Software in Austin, Texas
Many CDI departments struggle to define sepsis, questioning whether to use SIRS or SOFA criteria to clinically...
Coding Clinic Updates: The Year in Review Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, Director of CDI Education, at HCPro, in Middleton, Massachusetts
During this session, attendees will understand the various recommendations...
Do Health System-Defined Diagnoses Make a Difference? Pamela Stence, RN, CCDS, CDI director at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego, California
During this session, Stence will share how an ACDIS Quarterly Conference Call led her team to delve into developing...
The Top 25: If You Can Make It Here, You Will Make It EVERYWHERE! Candace Blankenship, RN, CCDS, Clinical Project Manager with Iodine Software, based in in Austin, Texas
During this presentation, participants will learn how the top 25 codes in the final...
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This sample clinical definition was provided by Jera Van Damme, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, senior clinical documentation educator at Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota.
This sample has been reviewed and approved by the Forms...
Defining and Querying for AKI and CKD: Could It Be ATN? Rhoda Chism, RN, CCDS, CCS, Manager of CDI Audit and Education, and Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, CCS, CDI Director from Steward Healthcare, in Dallas
Attendees will learn how the incidence of...
Back to the Laboratory! Assessing Lab Values for CDI Outcomes Verona Lodholz, CCDS, CCS, MT(ASCP), DC, CDI director for Accuity Delivery Systems, LLC., based in New York, New York
Session attendees will learn how results from laboratory tests provide vast...
