Since the advent of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, CDI professionals have known that physician copy and paste errors pose a threat to...Read More »
In responding to this year's ACDIS membership survey, hundreds of respondents indicated that obtaining physician support for their CDI efforts...Read More »
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the joint Tennessee Health Information Management Association/Tennessee ACDIS local chapter...Read More »
The 2017 updates to ICD-10-CM included many additions to the digestive system diagnoses, especially with codes for pancreatitis and intestinal...Read More »
Intensive care units are expensive, invasive, and supposed to be reserved for the sickest hospital patients, but more than half the time, they're...Read More »
Healthcare providers need to dedicate resources to increasing case-mix index, improving discharge disposition code accuracy, reducing readmission...Read More »