The American Hospital Association (AHA) released a series of videos to educate hospitals, clinicians, and trustees on the new system outlined in...Read More »
The Chapter Advisory Board held its quarterly call for local chapter leaders Thursday, October 22. During the call, members of the three Missouri...Read More »
On October 13, CMS announced a new initiative to increase clinician engagement, including a regulatory review to begin reducing unnecessary...Read More »
During the 2015 Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) Conference, a national work group of experienced pediatric CDI specialists including pediatricians, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric critical care physicians, nurses, and coding specialists was formed to...
Volunteer local chapter leaders are invited to connect with each other and the Chapter Advisory Board today, Thursday, October 20, at noon,...Read More »
Poor documentation can flummox radiologists and systematic reporting must be a priority, Joseph Glaser, MD, a nuclear medicine physician at...Read More »
Documentation and coding of severe sepsis matters in terms of patient risk assessment and establishing sepsis as a diagnosis, as well as the effect of such documentation (and subsequent code assignment) on quality measures.
The Washington Evergreen ACDIS Chapter had more than two dozen CDI specialists converge on Swedish Medical Center in Seattle last Thursday,...Read More »