by Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, and Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS
A newly published report from the Annals of Internal Medicine found that SIRS criteria had greater sensitivity than qSOFA as a screening test to initiate treatment for sepsis in non-ICU patients.Read More »
Over the next couple weeks, the ACDIS leadership will share some recommendations for various meeting structures, taken from the Local Chapter Leadership Toolkit, starting with monthly meetings.Read More »
CMS recently announced MyHealthEData, an initiative aimed at standardizing medical record data and giving patients the ability to share it with providers.Read More »
If you incorporate the practices and tenets below into your query development, you will find your queries are clearer, more direct in intent (but not directing in terms of response desired from the provider), and to the point, with...Read More »
My family goes all out for St. Patrick’s Day. Dad has green suspenders with day-glow green shot glasses. Mom has a Dr. Seussian green and white top hat. My nephew wears a green plaid fedora. There’s green beer, traditional corned beef and cabbage, the...Read More »
