Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that SCL Health System (SCLHS) has selected its Health Language software as part of SCLHS's strategic roadmap to ICD-10 implementation. The Leap I-10 solution will be leveraged to help the 2250-bed health system mitigate financial risk, improve clinical documentation and streamline conversion to meet the October 1, 2014 deadline of the new clinical coding system.
Leap I-10 seeks to provide a foundation of analytics to help hospitals evaluate the potential impact of the ICD-10 conversion process across departments, applications, processes and workflows. The solution mines historical claims data to identify DRGs and ICD-9 codes that may pose a risk, as well as helps hospitals pinpoint clinical documentation improvement needs for compliance. Advanced tools enable healthcare organisations to create customised code mappings from ICD-9 to ICD-10 to minimise the potential for revenue loss.
The healthcare industry's critical transition to the modern ICD-10 coding system is said to be a massive undertaking that is expected to impact nearly every aspect of hospital operations. SLC Health System has reportedly chosen Health Language to provide the tools it needs to navigate this complex process.
Health Language provides healthcare terminology management solutions and professional services that normalise all data within a healthcare organisation into standardized code sets such as ICD-10, SNOMED CT and LOINC. SCLHS is a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organisation operating nine hospitals, four safety net clinics, one children's mental health treatment centre and more than 100 ambulatory service centres in four US states.
