Stay ConnectedDuring each episode of the ACDIS Podcast, the ACDIS team chats with a special guest, including industry thought leaders, ACDIS advisory board members, and CDI specialists. You’ll hear about best practices, tips, and the latest ACDIS and CDI news. This lively 30-minute program will keep CDI and HIM professionals entertained and up to date on the pulse of the CDI industry.
New episodes drop every other Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. ET on our website or via your podcast app!
With special guests Katy Good, RN, RBS, CCS, CCDS, Training Materials Specialist for Enjoin CDI, and Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Iodine Software. Both were contributors to the new query brief. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS. To read Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice--2019 update in its entirety, please click here.
With special guests Ann Donnelly, RN, BSN, CCDS, manager of CDI for Ardent Health Services, Tulsa Region, Hillcrest Medical Center, and Darcy Watts, RN, CDI specialist with Hillcrest Medical Center. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. To download the slides presented on today's program, please click here. To view the article "AHRQ Analysis Finds Hospital-Acquired Conditions Declined By Nearly 1 Million from 2014-2017" as featured on In the News, please click here. To nominate a colleague for the 2019 ACDIS Achievement Awards, please click here.
With special guest Abby Steelhammer, MBA, MHA, RN, director of clinical documentation excellence at Novant Health, a multi-facility system based in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the ACDIS CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. To learn more about the CDI Managment Essentials pre-conference event to the 12th annual ACDIS Conference as featured on today's show, please click here. To view The Expanding Role of Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in Research and Analytics as covered on In the News, please click here.
With special guests Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM, the director of clinical documentation excellence (CDE) at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Yvonne Whitley RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, the Manager for the Novant Health Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Improvement team. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. To learn more about ACDIS' new CCDS-O certification, please click here.
With special guest James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, a Nashville-based group of physicians, coders, and clinicians engaged nationwide as CDI physician advisors, ICD-10 medical informaticists, and DRG and HCC compliance advocates. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS. To view the article "CMS releases rule on the risk adjusment program for the 2018 benefit year," please click here. To view the article "3M to acquire M*Modal's Technology Business" as featured on In the News, please click here. To review the categories for the 2019 ACDIS Achievement Awards or nominate a colleague, please click here. After the show, Dr. Kennedy provided the following link, which provides a map of ICD-10 codes to HCCs. Please click here to access.
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