by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS
While riding the gondola at Snowbasin ski area last week in Utah, I had the opportunity to converse with a physician (who happened to be riding up the lift with me) regarding the field of CDI. His interpretation of CDI centered...Read More »
Next week more than 500 CDI specialists from around the country will meet at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago for the 3rd Annual ACDIS Conference. This year’s conference features more than 30 speakers and offers three distinct tracks of programs from which to choose. The main conference...Read More »
We, in the United States, will soon need to adopt the electronic health record (EHR). Over the past few years, of course, healthcare entities have slowly converted from the traditional handwritten medical record toward one that is totally digital. There have...Read More »
Happy CDI Week and welcome to the 2022/2023 Council term! It always feels fitting when the first CDI Leadership Insider (CLI) edition of the new term falls during our CDI Week celebration. It’s a great way to welcome new members into our...Read More »
Vanessa Elliott, BSN, RN, CCDS, enterprise system CDI educator at WVU Medicine, asks: "How are other teams handling their workflow processes with reviews, such as assigning, following up, and concurrent reviews? I’d love input from folks using Epic and 3M!"Read More »
I challenge you to find one textbook of medicine, physiology, or pathology that refers to a category of hematologic abnormality as “acute blood loss anemia.”
But coders are very familiar with that term. They may ask a physician whether a...Read More »
There are roughly 60 days left until the third annual ACDIS conference but only two to make the early bird registration deadline. The conference takes place June 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, with a pre-conference event on June 2 and a paper/pencil seating of the Certified Clinical...Read More »
A CDI Work Group run by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has been meeting for more than a year to address and develop CDI resources and tools. One of the primary objectives of the AHIMA CDI Work Group was the development of a CDI practice brief. The CDI practice...Read More »
