Note from the ACDIS Interim Director

The new query practice brief is open for review

by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC

I am a rule follower. I was raised that way by my father. He taught me rules were made to be followed, and if the rules don’t make sense, work to change them. With that thought in mind, I have loved the work that ACDIS and AHIMA have done to co-author and maintain the Guidelines for Achieving Compliant Query Practice©*. With each update and revision over the years, we’ve recognized that query practices have changed. The understanding that more individual job roles engage in physician queries, that queries are applied in numerous healthcare settings, and that queries are deployed for more varied purposes than ever before, has allowed us to evolve and apply these communication tools in a number of diverse ways.

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