CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 2

Note from the Advisory Board: Five questions to ask when considering prioritization software solutions

March 1, 2019
ACDIS Guidance, Policies & Procedures

by Angie Curry, RN, BSN, CCDS
Achieving documentation integrity—which results in positive outcomes for everything from quality and Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) to hospital ratings and scores—means actively involving CDI specialists in organizational documentation initiatives....Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 2

News: Researchers use population health data to determine cardiovascular disease risk

January 10, 2019
Clinical & Coding, News

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that using population health data could help identify patients with a high...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 2

EHR’s troubled path: Three persistent problems

March 1, 2019
Policies & Procedures, Education

Technology changes at what can seem like light speed. ACDIS released a white paper on the topic of electronic health records (EHR) in 2013, and anyone working in CDI knows that, though some things remain constant, a lot has changed since then.

The three issues that CDI professionals most...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 2

News: Healthcare price transparency off to a slow start in 2019

January 10, 2019
News, Quality & Regulatory

As part of the fiscal year 2019 IPPS final rule, CMS required hospitals to publish their lists of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 2

Guest column: How to conduct CDI audits and why it’s important

March 1, 2019
Physician Queries, Policies & Procedures

by Jill Dressler, RN, BSN, CCDS and Sandy Frey, RHIT, CCS
CDI has many parts: documentation analysis, provider engagement, program infrastructure, and performance monitoring. One way to monitor staff’s effectiveness is to audit their query practices. This ensures CDI staff capture...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 2

Q&A: Understanding MDCs

January 10, 2019
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Q: I’m having trouble understanding what MDC are. For example, why would circulatory disorders be an MDC, but heart failure wouldn’t?Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 13, Issue 2

Artificial intelligence: Working with computerassisted coding, natural language processing

March 1, 2019
CDI Management, Policies & Procedures

More than half of the respondents to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey use computer-assisted coding (CAC) and/ or natural language processing (NLP) software, and another 6% intend to implement the technology in the next year. While many of those respondents said software has improved aspects of...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 13, Issue 2

ACDIS update: Join us for a free Coding Clinic webinar, January 15

January 10, 2019
Clinical & Coding, Education

Keeping up with evolving CDI and coding expectations can be a challenge, especially in the wake of the holiday hubbub. Start 2019 off in the know with this free webinar covering key highlights from the fourth quarter 2018 edition of Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS.Read More »

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