Accurate documentation of patient encounters is a key to the economic health of the hospital. Healthcare providers need an automated method of achieving real-time visibility into incomplete documentation.

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• 3M™ DRG Assurance™ Program — Supports an organization by improving documentation and coding to appropriately reflect patient acuity, resulting in proper DRG assignment for CMS payment, accurate reflection of severity-of-illness and risk-of-mortality outcomes, and assistance in preparing for a severity-adjustment payment methodology.
• 3M™ DRG Financial Impact Analysis — Helps hospitals estimate the financial impact associated with proposed CMS rules that apply to 3M APR DRG issues.
• 3M™ APR Bridge Service (now available with MS-DRG Update) — Assists hospitals that have already implemented a concurrent documentation improvement program and need assistance implementing 3M APR DRGs into their concurrent process. The 3M APR Bridge Service is now updated to include the Medicare-Severity DRGs (MS-DRGs).
• 3M™ ClinTrac™ Care Planning Manager — Integrates case management, social services, resource management and discharge planning to link an entire enterprise. Gives staff the ability to quickly identify issues that impact denial management and length of stay.
• 3M™ ChartScript™ Software — Enables transcription of dictation files and editing of speech-recognized documents remotely with automated distribution.
• 3M™ VoiceScript™ Software — Enables care providers to dictate anywhere anytime via phone, PC or PDA and helps reduce errors when entering patient IDs.

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