In the past 15 years at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida, there were two unsuccessful attempts to implement a CDI program. So when Joannie Crotts, RN, BSN, CPC, took on the project back in 2011, shortly after accepting her first CDI position, she had her hands...Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is January 1, 2017. You must complete your online quiz...Read More »
Editor’s Note: Let’s call this week’s guest post from “a ghost of ACDIS’ past.” Those who’ve worked in the profession for some time will no doubt remember with some fondness the teachings of founding ACDIS Advisory Board member Robert S. Gold, MD, who sadly passed away in...Read More »
It’s hard to believe that the holiday season is upon us once again. One minute we’re plotting CDI expansion and planning summer vacations, and the next moment we’re facing end-of-year quality reporting requirements and sketching out ideas for query auditing and staffing productivity for 2017. It...Read More »
Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean should measure it, Jon Elion, MD, founder and CEO, ChartWise Medical Systems, told ICD-10 Monitor’s Talk Ten Tuesday...Read More »
by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS
The coding function would not exist if there were no physician documentation from which to code. The challenge for coders is not so much that there is no physician documentation; it’s that the documentation they have does not...Read More »
During a conversation regarding what basic elements CDI programs need at the onset in order to be successful, ACDIS Advisory Board member Wendy De Vreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS, MBA, Director Case Management Case Management and Clinical Social Work
University of...Read More »
A few weeks ago, ACDIS put out a call for members to nominate a colleague to be featured on the ACDIS Blog. We received a number of responses, but this one stood out. Kristi Repetto, RN, BSN, CCDS, director of CDI at Lee Health in Fort Meyers, Florida, nominated her colleague, Christi...Read More »
