Hospitals face increased public scrutiny as health services benchmarking data – such as report cards and comparative information on provider performance – become more widely and easily accessible. Relentless pressure to improve quality and control cost means hospitals must continually benchmark their quality of care against a standard to discover areas for improvement and make certain its performance data accurately reflect the clinical complexity of its patient population.

• 3M™ Benchmarking with Analytics — Flexible health benchmarking database that takes advantage of the proven 3M™ APR DRG Classification System to classify patients according to severity of illness and risk of mortality and present a true picture of a patient population. This severity-adjusted patient population can then be compared to severity-adjusted normative group averages for a true apples-to-apples comparison of quality and outcomes.