Everyone has a story to share. Perhaps you’ve come to the CDI profession by way of a career in physical therapy or transitioned into CDI from coding after having been a foreign medical graduate. Perhaps you recently got permission to create a CDI-specific email newsletter targeted to...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
As the CDI profession has grown, so has the diversity of job titles represented in the profession. Like many industries, with maturation comes specialization....Read More »
ACDIS national is always happy to publish chapter newsletters, “save the date” flyers, or other documents to your local chapter or networking group page on the website. However, we do prefer documents saved in PDF format to streamline the process of...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Productivity expectations are a tricky topic, often talked about in nonspecific terms that leave those trying to set benchmarks for their department lost in the mist. While productivity metric expectations should be...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
By the end of January 2021, the total number of deaths associated with the pandemic neared 450,000, according to John Hopkins’ coronavirus tracker. That’s the official count. Most in healthcare understand that...Read More »
by Carolyn Riel
One of the main aspects of the CDI role is provider education. But unlike query impacts—both financial and quality related—proving an ROI for educational efforts can be exceptionally difficult. There are no quality scores or rankings, no DRG changes, no concrete...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
So, your organization has a CDI program. How do you know if it’s any good? What positive impact is it having on your facility? Is it achieving everything it can? These questions can be answered only if you have performance data to...Read More »
