Education

By now, facilities should be way past the basic ICD-10 overview education. Now is the time to reinforce
ICD-10 knowledge through refresher...Read More »

The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully...Read More »

While most hospitals and health systems are working hard to improve the precision of their clinical documentation, these efforts can be futile...Read More »

Q: If the physician documents “HCAP” is that sufficient to be able to code a gram negative and/or pneumonia?...Read More »

by Linda Renee Brown, RN, MA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP

Four years ago, in these very pages, ...Read More »

The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully...Read More »

Fran Platt, BSN, RN, is the CDI manager at Southampton Hospital in New York. Though she says she’s new to CDI (she’ll be...Read More »

A recent survey conducted by The American Hospital Association and Executive Health Resources (EHR) found that 98.5% of participants reported that...Read More »

by Trey La Charité, MD
Even though primary care physicians (PCP) need CDI expertise, many remain unaware of how the medical...Read More »