Strategies and tools for improving transcription and documentation.

Failure to accurately document care provided is a significant threat to hospital revenue and compliance. What's more, it's only expected to become more important as documentation efforts grow increasingly more sophisticated to respond to the requirements of severity-based payment, as is being seen with Medicare severity-based diagnosis-related groups (MS-DRG). With this in mind, the following discussion, sponsored by 3M Health Information Systems, explores use of process change and technology to improve transcription and clinical documentation activities.