SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
3M Health Information Systems is expanding its market-leading 3M 360
Encompass System platform to introduce 3M 360 Encompass System –
Professional, the industry’s first encounter-based professional fee
coding solution. The new software brings the power of 3M’s
computer-assisted coding, physician query capability and reporting to
coding and billing for physician services, helping professional coders
improve productivity, boost compliance and decrease claim denials.
With the 3M 360 Encompass System as its foundation, 3M 360 Professional
breaks down the wall between professional fee coding and inpatient and
outpatient facility coding. The software allows coders to work from one
technology platform, making it possible to bridge clinical documentation
improvement (CDI) programs with all coding workflows and achieve
collaboration across coding functions – increasingly important to
revenue cycle success as professional fee coding operations become more
centralized within hospital health information management (HIM) and
revenue cycle departments or hospital medical groups.
The University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH), a five-hospital system
and New Mexico’s only academic medical center and level one trauma
center, is piloting the new 3M 360 Professional software.
“Expanding our use of 3M’s 360 Encompass System will allow us to capture
more consistent diagnoses between our provider billing and our facility
billing, and pave the way for single path coding in the future,” said
Catherine Porto, RHIA, Executive Director of HIM at UNMH. “We see
tremendous benefits in bringing computer-assisted coding to our
professional fee coders, as well as enhancing their ability to
participate in our CDI efforts. We feel that 3M is well ahead of the
market in terms of product functionality for an HIM department."
3M Health Information Systems will showcase the new software at the
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention,
October 16-19 in Baltimore, MD. AHIMA attendees can view a full software
demo at 3M booth #801 and access the new 3M case study, Uncovering
Reimbursement Opportunities and Compliance Risk: Professional Fee Coding.
3M 360 Professional builds on three decades of 3M experience in
developing the industry’s most accurate and compliant coding and
classification systems, used by more than 5,000 hospitals worldwide. The
new software is the latest addition to the 3M 360 Encompass System
platform, extending its natural language processing (NLP) benefits to
professional fee coders. Healthcare organizations using the 3M 360
Encompass System for computer-assisted coding (CAC), clinical
documentation improvement (CDI), quality metrics and analytics can now
take the next step to more efficiently connect professional fee coding
with facility coding.
Visit www.3m.com/his/360Professional
or call 800-367-2447 for more information about 3M 360 Professional and
the 3M 360 Encompass System platform. Learn more about 3M Health
Information Systems at www.3m.com/his
or @3MHISNews.
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