Since 1990, both 3M™ Medicode™ and 3M™ Dialect™ Clinical Encoders have played an important role in ensuring accurate, consistent and timely diagnostic and procedure coding in public and private healthcare, and Dialect clinical encoder will help to play a critical role in the future of SNOMED CT® Clinical Coding.
The application of national standards for clinical coding is critical to ensure that information exchanged between organisations is consistent, comparable and meaningful. Collection of accurate coded data is vital to support Clinical and Information Governance and continued support of optimal HRG assignment.
Clinical Coding and HRG accuracy is more important than ever and coders have a greater need for additional support.
3M’s HRG Groupers and Data Quality Support Tools can significantly help to improve the quality of clinical coded episodes and reduce poorly assigned HRGs during the coding process. This ensures that the correct and most appropriate HRG is assigned, so supporting accurate reimbursement and coding.
Here is a list of 3M™ HRG Grouping and Data Quality Software
3M™ Integroup™ On-line/real-time HRG Grouper
3M™ HRG Assistant™ HRG Validation and Rules Investigation
3M™ Data Quality Assistant™ Data Validation Module
The 3M™ Integrity™ Plus Auditing Tool has been developed by clinical coding audit experts within 3M to reflect the Connecting for Health (CfH) ‘Data Quality and Audit Framework’ (DQAF) in order to ensure consistent high quality audits. Integrity Plus auditing suite enables an auditor to directly review the original clinical codes assigned by the clinical coder identifying coding errors, possible omissions, and identifying sources of error. Integrity Plus auditing suite also quantifies discrepancies by calculating their HRG impact and offers full reporting in line with CfH requirements.
Here is a list of 3M™ DQAF Clinical Coding Auditing Software
The 3M™ Performance Analysis and Resource Management Software (PARM) turns your data into the information you need to measure performance, manage resources, and improve the delivery of healthcare services. The PARM software is designed for physicians and department managers or those accountable for their department‘s performance. 3M’s intuitive, user-friendly software makes it easy to examine and understand your data so that you can use it to make critical decisions.
3M™ Analytical and Benchmarking Software
3M™ PARM™ Performance, Analysis and Resource Management Software
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of the UK’s largest NHS Foundation Trusts; its Clinical Coding Department of 43 coders is responsible for coding approximately 280,000 in-patient episodes per year. Using clinical coding and auditing software from 3M HIS, they were able to improve the depth and accuracy of coding, thus saving time and increasing reimbursement from PbR.
