The Connecticut ACDIS Chapter meets Thursday, June 9, at 1:30 p.m., at The Hospital of Central Connecticut with Glenn Krauss, Director of Enterprise Solutions for ZirMed discussing "CDI- Recognizing, Identifying and Effectively
by Sherri Clark, BSN, RN-BC, CCDS, CCS, Clinical Documentation Nurse Specialist at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, and core member of the Tennessee chapter of ACDIS
The joint meeting of the Tennessee Chapter of ACDIS (Association of Clinical Documentation...Read More »
On Sunday, May 22, 2016, the 2016 ACDIS Conference started a couple of days early for roughly 250 attendees who participated in one of our three pre-conference sessions.
Multiple CDI teams filed into the “Building a Best Practice CDI Team” session, co-presented by Richard Pinson,...Read More »
For those still trying to straighten out their budgets and priorities for 2017, I thought it might be helpful to reflect on a few larger industry trends that may significantly change the the focus of our efforts related to health...Read More »
Do you hold the CCDS certification? Do you know when it expires?
Once again, I heard from someone asking when his CCDS recertification is due. It expired and he wasn't happy. He changed jobs but hadn’t communicated his new email address to us.
ACDIS is not responsible for expired...Read More »
It’s been an exciting and illuminating month since I became the associate director for membership and product development for ACDIS. I took on the new role on January 4 and have been busy learning as much as I can about CDI, the association, and our members...Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, CCDS
Your CDI program successfully obtained consistent results over the last few years, and all is right within the CDI world. Then, the facility case-mix index (CMI) unexpectedly drops. Provided it rebounds, one or two months below its usual average...Read More »
