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Lessons From COVID-19: Looking Ahead to the Future Erica Remer, MD, CCDS, principal at Erica Remer, Inc., consultants, based in Cleveland, Ohio
Clinical medicine, and indeed life as we knew it, changed drastically in 2020. During this...
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Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, CCDS CCDS-O, Director of HIM/Coding, HCPro , a division of Simplify Compliance, Middleton, MA
At the completion of this educational activity, the learner will be able to...
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...
