Fierce Healthcare September 15, 2021
Healthcare system survival pivots on many metrics, but the ability to generate revenue and to evidence high quality of care are two of the most essential.
At the center of both metrics is the clinical documentation process, where an accurate representation of every patient’s clinical experience while in a provider’s care must be recorded.
As simple as it may sound, achieving that accurate reflection of diagnoses, interventions and the clinical picture is anything but simple. Medicine is as much science as it is art, and complex definitions, levels of specificity and complex medical terminology mean that most hospitals struggle to document everything properly, leading to significant lost revenues and under-reporting on quality metrics.
Health systems have answered this challenge by...