CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 7

ACDIS update: New ACDIS Podcast episode focuses on acute kidney injury!

February 15, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Clinical & Coding, Education

We're delighted to share that the new episode of the ACDIS Podcast is now available! Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS, is our guest this week for a conversation about acute kidney injury (AKI). Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 7

ACDIS update: Congratulations to our 2024 Scholarship winners!

February 15, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Expansion, News

For the past few months, the ACDIS Furthering Education Committee has reviewed each and every one of all the wonderful applications we received for the 2023/2024 ACDIS Scholarships. It’s been a long process to select our recipients, but so rewarding as we’ve considered the impact these awards...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 7

Local chapter update: Leverage the Local Chapter Leadership Toolkit for leadership needs

February 15, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Education

In order to support leaders, ACDIS national and the members of the Chapter Advisory Committee maintain a library of resources focused on common leadership questions which is available on the ACDIS website here (scroll down just below the interactive chapter map):...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 18, Issue 6

Download the November/December 2024 edition of the CDI Journal!

November 1, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

FEATURES
5 Quality nirvana: Cosmic tips on how to achieve a five-star quality rating
10 Case study: Readmissions
15 Inpatient risk adjustment: A natural next step...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 6

Note from the ACDIS Editor: Share your feedback with ACDIS!

February 8, 2024
ACDIS Guidance

by Jess Fluegel

One of my great pleasures as an ACDIS editor is getting to interview CDI professionals from so many differing backgrounds and circumstances who have their own unique goals for our bimonthly CDI Journal publication. In speaking with more and more of you, I...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 18, Issue 6

Note from the Associate Editorial Director | From finance to quality to risk adjustment

November 1, 2024
ACDIS Guidance, Quality & Regulatory

by Linnea Archibald

During my first year at ACDIS (almost eight years ago now—time flies!), we included a section on the CDI Week Industry Survey focused on CDI expansion into quality reviews. It wasn...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 18, Issue 6

News: COVID-19 patients with IBD history at greater risk for severe outcomes, study suggests

February 8, 2024
Clinical & Coding, News

A recent study presented at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress has suggested that COVID-19 patients who have a history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of sepsis, shock, and acute kidney injury, according...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 18, Issue 6

Feature | Quality nirvana: Cosmic tips on how to achieve a five-star quality rating

November 1, 2024
Quality & Regulatory

by Joshua Raposa

In many ways, the yogi is the perfect symbol for quality in CDI. The yogi is patient. He is slow. He focuses on the important things. He asks questions about life and death. He emphasizes—in short—quality over quantity. And, it turns out, he’s not too...Read More »

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