Education

Make the Business Case for Your CDI Program With Redefined Performance Metrics
Kim Conner, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist for ACDIS at HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts
During this session, participants will learn how to organize a CDI program to...

Mastering the Art of Difficult Conversations
Joan Peterson, MS, vice president, master facilitator, and leadership coach at Bluepoint Leadership Development, a division of Simplify Compliance LLC, in Brentwood, Tennessee
Everyone hates having difficult...

Documentation Accuracy: Defining Quality as Process or an Outcome
Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, CDI director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, chief clinical strategist at Iodine Software in Austin, Texas...

ACDIS and NAHRI Present: CDI and UR: Collaboration for Success
Kimberly A. Hoy, JD, CPC, director of Medicare and compliance, and Laurie L. Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, interim director of ACDIS, at HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts
CDI and...

Sepsis Coding and Documentation Perspectives
Rhoda Chism, MHL, RN, CCDS, CCS, CPHQ, manager of CDI audit and education, and Sheila Duhon, eMBA, RN, CCDS, CCS, A-CCRN, national director of CDI operations and education at Steward Health Care in Dallas, Texas, plus Cindy...

The Best of Both Worlds: Leveraging CDI and UR for Status Assignment, Denial Prevention, and Appeals
Alyce Reavis, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDI auditing coordinator at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
In this session, participants will learn...

Engaging Physicians Proactively With AI-Powered CDI
Dana Burnap, RN, CDI specialist, and Tami L. McMasters-Gomez, MHL, CCDS, CDIP, director of coding and CDI services, at UC Davis Health based in Sacramento, California
Building a gold-standard CDI program is...

The Heavyweight: Using a Physician Advisor/Champion to Knock Out Your CDI/Coding Struggles
Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV, physician advisor for case management, utilization, and clinical documentation at ProHealth Care, Inc. in Waukesha, Wisconsin...