Case study: Pioneering computer- assisted coding at a pediatric health system 3M Health Information SystemsCase study: Pioneering computer-assisted coding at a pediatric health system The challenge Prior to the Cerner and 3M’s computer-assisted coding (CAC) implementation, the pediatric health system was using spreadsheets and a painstaking manual method to code professional encounters. The process started with the 3M standalone encoder receiving the codes and ended with a spreadsheet of codes sent to another team to manually input the data into the billing system. The hospital’s director of revenue integrity said, “The decision to change our billing system is what finally triggered us to make a change in our coding process. ” A year before that, the organization decided

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