Regardless of where your company operates, you will find Care Communications, Inc., ready to help you address your most complex Health Information Management issues. The professionals in our global network provide capabilities and knowledge suited to meet your specific needs. CARE’s corporate headquarters are based in Chicago, Illinois. Services that CARE offers in countries around the world include:

HIM Consulting Services

• Effectively transition to the electronic health record (EHR)
• e-HIM and EHR vision and strategy development
• Process reengineering
• Change and project management
• Policy and procedure development
• Implement best practices through enhanced HIM operations
• HIM Department Operations Review
• Interim Management
• Equip HIM leadership with the skills to confidently lead in uncharted territory through customized leadership education and coaching programs
• Accreditation preparation (Joint Commission International)

Clinical Documentation and Reimbursement Improvement

• Optimize your revenues and improve your case mix through improved coding and documentation
• Clinical Documentation Improvement
• Coding compliance consultation and assessment
• ICD-9 and case rate coding quality review and education
• ICD-10 readiness and performance optimization

Project Services

• Comprehensive planning, support and follow-up for all your special projects
• Master Patient Index assessment and cleanup services
• Policy and procedure development
• Customized research support and project management
• Medical record procurement and abstraction
• Implementation projects
• EHR-related projects
• Charge deficiency projects

Cancer Registry Services

• Complete cancer registry consulting and support services many of which can be performed on site or remotely.
• Abstracting (concurrent or backlogs) with reporting
• Casefinding including disease index, pathology reports, chemotherapy logs and any additional relevant information
• Follow-up using internal cancer committee approved reporting mechanism
• Interim Management
• Quality Assurance Reviews
• Pre-survey and mock survey review and consultation