Andrea Johnson, RN, BSN, CCDS, the CDI specialist at Carolinas Rehabilitation in Concord, North Carolina, worked in the acute inpatient setting for six years before making a significant change.Read More »
“Working in a critical access hospital (CAH) lets you get your feet wet in a lot of different areas,” said Ellen Shriver, RN, CCDS, then a CDI specialist, RAC coordinator, inpatient coder, and auditor for Boone County Health Center in Albion, Nebraska, on...Read More »
As with any profession, many unique individuals make up the pediatric CDI field. Since pediatrics represents a relatively new area for CDI, ACDIS spent some time chatting with “the proud and the few,” as Leah Savage, RN, MSN, CDI specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky,...Read More »
The 2017 ACDIS Physician Queries Benchmarking Survey uncovered a number of tidbits about the query process, but the survey also probed the state of remote CDI programs. While 40.8% of respondents cited having some sort of remote CDI option, 36.03% of respondents reported having some sort of...Read More »
Take a look through this edition of CDI Journal and note how many of CDI programs focused on quality also aim to capture some of the diagnoses already on most CDI programs’ top 10 lists. Through case examples and expert analysis, the March/April edition shows you how to "Take a closer...Read More »
My husband swears he had SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It happened on an extended weekend trip to Maine, just a few months after the south China outbreak that killed more than 700. He suffered through our trip, and when neither antibiotics nor...Read More »
You may be wondering why so many CDI departments are expanding their review processes to include consideration of how CMS quality measures will be affected by claims data.Read More »
