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To assist hospitals in obtaining complete and accurate clinical documentation, 3M Health Information Systems is introducing the new 3M DRG Assurance Program, now enhanced to include a leave-behind software tool, the 3M Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) System, to help hospitals achieve and sustain documentation improvement results over time. More than 750 hospitals have relied on the 3M DRG Assurance Program to improve inpatient clinical documentation, with clients averaging a 2-4% increase in case mix, resulting in a 4:1 financial return

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) June 15, 2009 -- New federal and state regulations that base healthcare payment on quality outcomes are making the clinical documentation process more complex and more critical to the bottom line. To assist hospitals in obtaining complete and accurate documentation, 3M Health Information Systems is introducing the new 3M™ DRG Assurance™ Program, now enhanced to include a leave-behind software tool, the 3M™ Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) System, to help hospitals achieve and sustain results over time.

More than 750 hospitals have relied on the 3M DRG Assurance Program to improve inpatient clinical documentation. Based on the extensive knowledge of 3M consultants, and using peer-to-peer physician education, 3M DRG Assurance prepares a concurrent documentation review team to query physicians so that a patient's severity of illness, risk of mortality, complications and comorbidities are fully captured. Documentation is more complete when a physician responds to clinically driven questions from a well-trained review staff before the patient's discharge.

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