Membership Update: Conference planning underway; October meetings offered; new materials posted
CDI Strategies, October 11, 2012
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Conference Speaker Application Period Closed: More than 130 applications were received. The 2013 ACDIS Conference Committee has already begun its deliberations and speakers will be chosen before the end of the year. To register for the conference, please visit our webpage: http://www.hcmarketplace.com/ev-10432/6th-Annual-ACDIS-Conference-Nashville-TN.html
Local Chapter Meetings Scheduled: Eleven local chapters host events during October. States with meetings include: Ohio, Minnesota, California, Michigan, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Nevada, and Indiana. For more information, visit:
CDI Journal Posted: The 4th Quarter, October edition of the CDI Journal has been posted. The issue includes the following articles:
- Case management or HIM? Finding the right home for CDI
- Director’s Note: The CDI Roadmap
- ICD-10 Deadline: Implementation date set at October 1, 2014
- Pressing questions, actionable answers regarding ICD-10
- Suggested ICD-10 implementation timeline
- Addressing the 'bad' and 'ugly' in physician documentation
- Meet a Member: Founding Ill., chapter leader was among first to pass CCDS exam
- Comprehensive training helps new staff adjust to CDI role
- Four steps to physician query success
- Sample physician query process
- 1,000th CDI professional passes CCDS exam
- Prepayment review demonstration begins; CDI role in audit defense gains momentum
- Q&A: Exploring CDI audit defense efforts
- Joint Indiana-Kentucky event offers regional opportunities
The information and education presented in the CDI Journal is a benefit of ACDIS membership. To become a member, call our customer service department at 800-650-6787, email customerservice@hcpro.com, or visit the CDI Marketplace on the ACDIS website.
Free CDI Week Webinars Available: As part of CDI Week celebrations, ACDIS presented two free webinars, which have now been posted in the CDI Week Toolkit portion of the website. They include:
- "Introduction to Clinical Documentation Improvement" with Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN,CCDS, CDIP, CDI Education Director for HCPro Inc., in Danvers, Mass.
- "Clinical Documentation Improvement: What's in it for the physician," with Trey La Charite, MD, and Timothy N. Brundage, MD
During the webinar, Brundage also offered the following two order sets which are also available for download on the CDI Week Toolkit page:
- Sample pneumonia order set
- Sample sepsis order set
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