Q: I’m trying to come up with ways to keep my CDI staff engaged and give them more flexibility for a better work-life balance. I’ve heard of people offering flex hours, remote work options, and four 10-hour days instead of five eight-hour days. What are the benefits and...Read More »
At our organization, we’re struggling to effectively onboard new CDI specialists that have limited prior CDI experience. What vendors, technology support, or boot camps have you used for effective onboarding?Read More »
Have you responded yet to the latest physician query survey? This 16-question survey should only take you about five minutes to complete, and will help us at ACDIS measure where we are in terms of CDI query efforts compared to a 2017 benchmarking survey.Read More »
The gyms are crowded this time of year. The first week of January, not so much. Second week of January, traffic picks up. Third week of January, the gym gets packed as people begin to realize that the month is almost passed them by and their get healthy, get thin, get more involved resolutions...Read More »
Rani Stoddard, MBA, RN, CPHQ, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, is the CDI and HIM supervisor at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California, and the secretary, board member, and newsletter editor for the California ACDIS local chapter. She has been in the CDI field since 2014.Read More »
We’re having a lot of discussions lately on whether we should query for pressure injuries when they’re only documented by nursing. Our wound care nurses determined that staff nurses identify pressure injuries correctly only 60% of the time. If we’re querying based on nursing documentation, our...Read More »
Q: Most of the hospitals in our system make the query a progress note in the patient’s medical record. The provider puts an “X” by the appropriate answer choice and signs the note. At that point, the query is part of the permanent medical record and can be used for coding....Read More »
