ACDIS hit a number of milestones in the last year—5,000 members, 3,400 CCDS holders, nearly 2,000 conference attendees. While we’re excited to see our numbers grow, every now and then, we’re contacted by a member unaware of the resources available to them. We want you to be able to make the most...Read More »
AHIMA recently published a clinical validation practice brief in the July 2016 Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, available to AHIMA members on ...Read More »
Kay Kolb RN, MSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Kettering Health Network in Ohio has done a little bit of everything before entering CDI in 2003.Read More »
Melinda Scharf, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, regional clinical documentation integrity educator at St. Joseph Hospital in Irvine, California, has worked in CDI since 2008 after serving as a pediatric nurse for 10 years and an ER nurse for 11.
Like dozens of other attendees at this year’s ACDIS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Mercedita Morales, RN, BSN stopped by our booth to sign up for an ACDIS membership. Little did she know that she would be the 5,000th person to become a part of our association. A CDI...Read More »
What’s the biggest issue related to for reporting respiratory failure diagnoses? It all starts with the definition, said Robert Stein, MD, FCCP, CCDS, associate director of the MS-DRG assurance program for Enjoin, during the ...Read More »
by Wendy Frushon Tsaninos, RN, MSTD, CCDS, CMSRN, CCS
One of my favorite occupational movies is Pushing Tin. Its take on air traffic control is from before 9/11, and just to make it more interesting, it stars actors familiar to the Gen-X population (John Cusack, Billy...Read More »
Physician advisors serve a variety of purposes beyond documentation improvement, including assisting case management, utilization review, quality, and coding departments, among other assignments, ...Read More »
