Fran Platt, BSN, RN, is the CDI manager at Southampton Hospital in New York. Though she says she’s new to CDI (she’ll be celebrating her two-year anniversary in the field this coming September), she says learning and continually growing in the CDI profession has kept her...Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is July 1, 2016.You must...Read More »
If your CDI program needs physician engagement ideas, perhaps tuning into the efforts at your nearby pediatric hospital can help—or, you can just call on Valerie Bica, RN, CPN, CDI specialist at Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, and her teammates. Although many...Read More »
Out of habit, many physicians simply will not write the word encephalopathy, says Paul Simmons, MD, Assistant chief medical officer (CMO) and CDI physician advisor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. For other doctors, words like encephalopathy, AMS, and delirium are all synonymous.Read More »
Formerly the vice president of the North Carolina ACDIS chapter, Brenda A. Harris, RN, CCDS, CCA, has worked in the CDI field for 12 years; she currently is a CDI specialist with Carolinas HealthCare Systems: Carolinas Medical Center University in Charlotte, North Carolina.Read More »
The CDI Journal offers CE credits towards the ACDIS CCDS certification. To obtain your CCDS continuing education credits, you must successfully complete the online continuing education quiz. Please note: The expiration date for this activity is May 1, 2016.You must complete...Read More »
When providers use different definitions for the same disease, confusion and chaos result. Inaccurate definitions allow Recovery Auditors (i.e., RACs) ample opportunities for denials, depriving your facility of valuable dollars/patient care resources....Read More »
Sheila Duhon, MBA, RN, CCDS, A-CCRN, is the national director clinical documentation improvement educator, performance management and innovation division for Tenet Healthcare Corporation. She’s been involved in CDI since 2006, and finding the position offered a career in which...Read More »
