IA_CC_8 · Implementation of documentation improvements for practice or process improvements

Subcategory: Care Coordination

Activity Description: Implementation of practices and processes that document care coordination activities. CMS's own example is a documented care coordination encounter that tracks all clinical staff involved and communications from the date the patient is scheduled for an outpatient procedure through the day of the procedure, which describes an anesthesia preoperative workflow almost exactly.

Validation documentation: Both of: documentation of the implementation (meeting minutes, swim lane workflow diagram, staff training agenda, copies of the old and new processes); and documentation of the outcomes from the newly implemented processes.