The ACDIS Podcast

Today’s guest is Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS, a trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Pro. Just like the printed ACDIS Pocket Guide, this online portal provides all of the detail, explanation, and content you have come to trust and expect from the ACDIS team but is updated in real-time...

Today’s guest is Leyna Belcher, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, enterprise system CDI educator for WVU Medicine in West Virginia. Today’s show is co-hosted to Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M Health Information Systems, now with M*Modal, delivers innovative...

Today’s guests are Susan Fantin, MSA, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, VP of integrated care management at McLaren Health Care in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and Kimberly Higgins, RN, CCDS, West Florida division CDI interim director at AdventHealth. Today’s show is co-hosted to Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Heal...

Today’s guest is Timothy Brundage, MD, CCDS, the chief executive officer and physician advisor of the Brundage Group. Today’s show is co-hosted to Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Please note that we had some issues during the show with Dr. Brundage's audio. We apologize for any inconvenience.  Featured solution: Today’s feature...

Today’s guests are Kory Anderson, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV, medical director at Intermountain Physician Advisor Services and CDI, and Kearstin Jorgenson, MSM, CPC, COC, the system operations director for physician advisor services at Intermountain Healthcare. Today’s show is co-hosted to Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is s...

Today’s guests are Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director at ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts, Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI services at CorroHealth, and Nikki Dailey, BSN, RN, CCDS, a level 3 CDI specialist for WVU Medicine. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national conference. Afte...

Today’s guest is William E. Haik, MD, FACCP, CDIP, director of DRG Review Inc., a physician-directed hospital coding consulting service. Today’s co-host is Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national conference. After a year in which we had to cancel our 2020 even...

Today’s guest is Analyn Dolopo-Simon, RN, MPH, ACM, CCDS, director of CDI for UCSD in La Jolla, California. Today’s co-host is Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national conference. After a year in which we had to cancel our 2020 event, ACDIS is stepping forward...

Today’s guest is Shelby Humphreys, RHIA, CCDS, the director of coding and CDI at Vidant Health based in Greenville, North Carolina. Today’s co-host is Heidi Zimmerman, RN, BSN, director for Cerner Intelligence. Today’s show is sponsored by Cerner. Cerner's health information technologies connect people and systems at more than 27,500 contracted provider facilities worldwide. Together with its clie...

Today’s guest is Yvonne Whitley, RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, CCDS-O, manager of ambulatory CDI at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. Today’s co-host is Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist with HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is sponsored by Curation Health. Curation Health helps providers and health plans navigate and scale from fee-for-service to...

Today’s guest is Melissa Varnavas, the editorial director of events and education at ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national conference. After a year in which we had to cancel our 2020 event, ACDIS is stepping forward to make ourselves and the CDI profession stronger than ever. Join us October 24-28 in Dallas, Texas, for the...

Today’s guests are John Blevins, vice president of strategic business development for Health Fidelity in San Mateo, California, and James P. Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, chief executive officer of Enjoin. The show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS national...

Today’s guests are Lee Anne Landon, BSN, CCMC, CCDS, network manager of CDI at HonorHealth in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) VanGelder, MREd, BSN, RN, CCDS, RHIT, CDI educator at HonorHealth in Phoenix, Arizona. The show is co-hosted by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported...

Today’s guests are Kory Anderson, MD, medical director, and Kearstin Jorgenson, MSM, CPC, COC, system operations director for Intermountain Physician Advisory Services. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education specialist for HCPro/ACDIS. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M Health Information Systems, now with M*Modal, delivers innovative s...

Today’s guest is Dave Friedenson, MD, is the chief medical officer and the compliance officer of Reventics. The show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist for HCPro/ACDIS. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: CDI Summer Retreat. A retreat is a place of privacy, safety, and security. A place where like-minded individuals can come to...

Today’s guests are Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, the president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI services for CorroHealth. The show is co-hosted by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director for HCPro/ACDIS. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: CDI Summer Retreat. A retr...

Today’s guests are Andrea L. Groenhagen, RN, BSN, CCDS, senior content solution designer for Chart Assist with Cerner Intelligence, and Heidi Zimmerman, RN, BSN, director at Cerner Intelligence. The show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: CDI Summer...

Today’s guest is Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, clinical program manager for Iodine Software in Charleston, South Carolina. The show is co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: CDI Summer Retreat. A retreat is a place of privacy, safety,...

Today’s guest is Susan Richards, CPHQ, CCS, CPC, CRC, COMA, CPC-I, CDEO, CEMC, who served as the director of clinical documentation for Humana Medicare Advantage from 2020-2021. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The L...

Today’s guest is Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC, CCDS-O, a CDI specialist at Penn Highlands Healthcare in DuBois, Pennsylvania. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS’...

Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS’ premier training for CDI specialists. Trusted by hundreds of CDI specialists as the go-to source for CDI education, this course defines th...

With special guest V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD, researcher of artificial intelligence and computer science for 3M Health Information Systems. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M Health Information Systems, now with M*Modal, delivers innovat...

With special guest Frank Levanduski, BBA, RHIT, CEMC, the manager of the documentation and coding education development and delivery teams, and Patty Vitasinski, RN, CCDS, the manager of CDI quality improvement for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts....

With special guest Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, CCDS, the director of CDI at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. If you’d like to view the Elixhauser comorbidity software information discussed in today’s show, click here. (https://bit.ly/3o1J6A7) Featured...

With special guest Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus LLC. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. The article Limjoco referenced on the show can be found here: http://ow.ly/le5A30rryQv Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/...