CDI professionals wishing to earn support from program administrators to attend the 2019 ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI may adapt the following proposal.Read More »
For roughly five years now, the CDI industry has toyed with various ideas about what constitutes an “outpatient” program and how to effectively take successful inpatient programs to the proverbial next level by expanding into “ambulatory” services. Over time,...Read More »
A recent study published in the JAMA from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice found that accountable care organization (ACO) care management and coordination activities were not associated with improved outcomes or spending in patients with complex needs.Read More »
We here at ACDIS have (affectionately) taken to calling outpatient CDI the “wild west.” The idea took root during our 2017 CDI Week due to its The Wild West: New Frontiers in CDI theme. But it’s quite apt.
The ACDIS team is busy planning the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, which takes place November 14-15 in Austin, Texas. The agenda is finalized, but the call for poster and lightning round presentations is still open. Those...Read More »
ACDIS is proud to debut the CCDS-O certification. The CCDS-O exam will be live in more than 300 proctored, secure testing sites across the country starting Monday, April 22.Read More »
Unlike the inpatient CDI world, there aren’t many outpatient tracking tools premade and available through vendors, so newly minted programs are often left to develop and rollout homegrown solutions. Developing an outpatient CDI tracking tool can be a long, arduous, and sometimes overwhelming...Read More »