More than 30% of respondents to the 2017 CDI Industry Survey plan to expand to some sort of outpatient service in the near future. But, with fairly flexible definitions of the term “outpatient,” those planning to expand are left without direction.
As with any new frontier for CDI, those...Read More »
To support the efforts of the hundreds of volunteers across the country and internationally, another group of volunteers regularly joins the ACDIS administration—the Chapter Advisory Board. This committee has met regularly over the past five years, and this year it will enter a new phase of work...Read More »
By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
If you mention analytics or key performance indicators (KPI) in relation to thought leaders on social media, you may be treated as though you’ve just suggested the world is flat and the earth is the center of the solar system.
Want to get involved in the ACDIS and CDI community this year? ACDIS is currently seeking volunteers for the 2018 Forms & Tools Library Committee.Read More »
Any CDI manager knows how important reliable CDI data is for benchmarking, goal setting, and proving a return on investment. Getting your hands on that data, though, can be much more difficult than you might hope. Between the intricacies of working with different EHR systems and busy workloads,...Read More »
"The cases can be anything from a simple pneumothorax to someone who’s been crushed from head to toe,” says Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS, CDI specialist at Erlanger Health System, a Level 1 trauma center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
By Lynelle A. Clausen, RN, BSN
I started working as a CDI specialist in May 2014, and was assigned to oncology, intensive care and the step–down unit (SDU) to complete reviews. I have a seasoned clinical background in these areas and knew what to look for in the medical record....Read More »
