This educational poster created by Rebecca "Ali" Williams, RN, BSN, CCDS, manager of documentation integrity at Spartanburg (SC) Regional Medical Center & Village Hospital, explains that in order for coders to accurately capture intracerebral hemorrhage physicians will need to specify the...
There are a number of ways to get CDI information into the hands of your facility’s physicians. The following list offers a number of suggestions...Read More »
It did not take Bonnie I. Epps, MN, RN, manager of the CDI department at Emory Healthcare, Inc., in Atlanta,long to realize that staff physicians...Read More »
As part of the first Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Juanita B. Seel, RN, CCDS, supervisor of documentation integrity at Greenville (SC) Hospital Center...
CDI specialists are in general optimistic about the growth of the profession, but not necessarily within their own departments; aren’t involved all that much in RAC defense; use CMI as their primary metric for success; and have found electronic queries beneficial, even though their hospitals are slow to adopt the new technology. Following is an overview of the survey results and Kennedy’s commentary.
What's in it for the physician training tool for CDI Week. This item was reviewed by the Resource Library Committee in 2023 with the recommendation that the use of ICD-9 information and use of paper documentation ought to be updated.
Cardiology service line PowerPoint presentation for CDI Week. This item was reviewed by the Resource Library Committee in 2023 with the recommendations that slides 5-9 require DRG updates with a particular focus on "postop acute pulmonary edema."
