by Melissa Varnavas

Want to see ACDIS Director Brian Murphy in a Santa hat? Join us this coming Monday, December 21, at 10 a.m., on our Facebook page for the last installment of our Monday Meet Up series.

These little 15-minute sessions started back in April as a way for us to stay connected with CDI professionals and ACDIS members, a way to spread information about clinical documentation and coding related to COVID-19 and the effects of the pandemic on the CDI profession.

For a while, I would turn my camera on each Monday at 10 a.m., and review the news of the day, highlight upcoming activities, showcase case studies from those working in the field. Sometimes I’d start by sharing some personal experiences—I showed photos of my mom for Mothers’ Day and told everyone how we held a car parade for my dad’s birthday. Sometimes I was successful. Sometimes I wasn’t. I don’t quite consider myself a Luddite but there were a handful of times I had to come back and re-air our session later because the first take didn’t have sound. Or I could see the video and others couldn’t. Or my cat, Katrina, tried to steal the show by walking across the keyboard.