The quarterly 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 January 1, 2016.You...Read More »
Another tradition in my household is to take some time around the dinner table on New Year’s day to talk about some of the things we’re grateful for that happened to us in the year that passed. Such reminisces often raise interesting thoughts. All together as...Read More »
Good documentation captures a patient’s accurate morbidity and severity of illness. It affects the quality measures that comprise physician profiles. Finally, good documentation affects financial reimbursement.
This is even truer when it comes to...Read More »
Anecdotally, colleges across the country are becoming aware of the CDI field and starting to implement certificate programs to meet job demands. One such program launched in the spring of 2014. ACDIS caught up with Denisse Jimenez, Office of the Dean of School of Continuing and Professional...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI, and Jeffrey Epstein, MD
The use of coded data for purposes other than reimbursement has shifted dramatically in the past few years. What can we do to make our documentation improvement efforts more meaningful...Read More »
Angelisa Romanello, RN, BSN, FNS, CCDS, is the manager of CDI at CJW Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. An AHIMA Approved ICD-10 CM/PCS Trainer, she is the current president of the Virginia ACDIS chapter and has been working in the CDI arena for seven years.Read More »
The quarterly 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 January 1, 2016.You...Read More »
No matter your holiday tradition, we all seem to share the almost mystical belief that this simple turning of the clock, this flip of the calendar, represents a magical reset button on our lives. We can suddenly envision a healthier, happier, more...Read More »
