By Linnea Archibald

I spent the first two days of this week in Washington, D.C., for the annual Specialized Industry Publishing Association (SIPA) conference and awards luncheon. While it was fun to see the capital sights, the main reason for the trip was to receive an award for the 2018 CDI Week Industry Overview Survey and accompanying webinar.

While we know that CDI Week provides an important anchor point for CDI professionals (in fact, ACDIS starts receiving questions about the theme a year in advance), this award from SIPA underscores its value. The CDI profession makes waves throughout healthcare and having the data and insight from the survey can help to shape the profession’s future. Anecdotally, we know that our members use the data to choose programmatic expansion areas, benchmark their physician engagement, and more. This award from SIPA validates its importance.