Conference Update: Speaker Q&A on creating a successful coding/CDI marriage

We are only two days until the core ACDIS team boards a Delta flight from Boston to Atlanta for the 2016 ACDIS conference! We cannot wait to connect with all of your nearly 2,000 attendees!

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As you put the finishing touches on your itinerary, take a look at what Diana Ortiz, RN, co-presenter with Kaycie Wood, MSHCM, RHIA, CCS, on “The Honeymoon Phase Is Over: Why Building a Collaborative Marriage Is the Key to Coding and CDI Success,” had to say in previewing her session with us. Join her next Wednesday in room C113, Level 1 at 1:30 p.m. for her presentation.

Q: Tell me a little bit about why building an effective relationship between CDI and coding is key to success?

A: Whenever you have two professional departments working together in absolute synergy, success is inevitable. This holds true for coding and CDI. By building, maintaining, and investing in this relationship here at [my facility] Ochsner Health System, we are seeing the results of our shared efforts.

Q: What are three things attendees can expect from your session?

A: Attendees can expect to learn more about coding and CDI shared processes, ways to successfully manage these processes, and ways to report out and hold each other accountable.

Q: Who should attend your presentation and why?

A: Coding and CDI leaders, because keeping both coding and CDI teams engaged and respectful of each other’s viewpoints is truly the key to both departments success. Hopefully, we can share ideas and inspire others as to how to successfully accomplish this.

Q: What do you think is the most important quality for a CDI professional to have?

A: I think the most important quality is an inherent ability to care about details and balance that care in the face of challenging daily changes.

Q: What are you most looking forward to about this year’s conference?

A: Listening to the speakers as well as the Q&A that follows each session, leaves me feeling refreshed and inspired with new ideas