Delivering quality health care means continually processing and analyzing huge volumes of new data. What this data says about an organization is more important than ever as providers, regulators, payers, and consumers generally use some form of comparative reports to evaluate the healthcare marketplace. Organizations need to measure and compare performance with peer hospitals across patient outcomes, resource utilization, and quality measures, and at the same time make sure these comparisons are based on accurate data.

• 3M™ APR DRG Classification System — The industry standard for all patient severity-of-illness and risk-of-mortality adjustment for quality, analytics and public reporting.