by Linnea Archibald
In a healthcare environment that puts increasing emphasis on pay-for-quality models, it’s no surprise that nearly 92.5% of all respondents to the...Read More »
by Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS
Patient safety and quality of care are forerunning concerns for organizations today. Not only do we want to ensure our patients are receiving high-quality care, we want to ensure care is safe and effective. We need to examine how...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
If your organization is having problems with recurrent hospitalizations for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations, you are not alone. In fact, this is a national problem that has escaped solution despite everyone’s best...Read More »
Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O, is the director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the social media coordinator for the North Carolina ACDIS local chapter, and she has been a...Read More »
The revenue cycle is a continuous complex wheel that impacts a healthcare organization’s bottom line. Connecting the dots between CDI and RCM is crucial to delivering both financial and patient outcomes.Read More »
FEATURES 6 Strategies for CDI new hires 10 Case study: CDI in Canada 17 Staff appreciation and retention 20 Case study: Leadership transitions...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
My first few days on the ACDIS team were filled with terms I’d never heard, abbreviations and acronyms I couldn’t decipher. As time went on, however, my knowledge incrementally increased, and I began “speaking the language” of CDI conversationally. It’s been...Read More »
