ACDIS is pleased to announce the election of four new advisory board members, terms of service effective January 2011 through December 2013. The following new board members were elected by a vote of the existing ACDIS advisory board from a pool of 61 candidates. So congratulations to Donna...Read More »
On our advisory board Web pages you can now find new documents describing qualifications and expectations of advisory board members, as well as our brand-new elections process.
In addition, our CCDS certification board is in the final stages of developing its own set of bylaws to govern...Read More »
Editor’s note: The following timeline contains step-by-step guidance for meeting the ICD-10 go-live date of October 1, 2013, collected and approved by the ACDIS advisory board. It includes material from the “AHIMA ICD- 10-CM/PCS Transition: Planning and Preparation Checklist.” It can be...Read More »
A CDI Talk string discussed ideas for evaluating consultants—a conversation that didn’t gather much steam. So I thought I would throw some ideas out to CDI “blog-o-sphere” to discover what floats.
When considering whether to enter into a...Read More »
There are a mere 75 days left until the 4th Annual ACDIS Conference in Orlando (April 7-8). Amazing how quickly the hands on old father time’s clock spin. It seems like just yesterday we were unpacking the boxes from the Chicago conference last June and here we are again preparing for...Read More »
(See p. 4) ACDIS has issued comments to AHIMA, CMS, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it’s largely been a shared responsibility and not the purview of a committee chair or elected officer, for example. We’ve also been asked to take a look at our elections process and ways...Read More »
You’ve heard it in the media: Hospitals are making people sick and/or causing unnecessary complications. While the problem is much more complex—often a clash of clinical terminology vs. documentation and coding regulations—hospitals are stuck in the middle and come out looking like an easy-to-...Read More »
As of January 1, a dozen ACDIS advisory board members will step down after leading the organization they helped create three years ago.This diverse group infused the association with a wide breadth of expertise and also reinforced the fact that CDI is not limited to nursing or HIM professionals...Read More »
