Assume you are a hospital HIM Manager and you need to work toward part of the new strategic plan that indicates that your department will use benchmarking to improve coding production.

Here are steps you can take as a HIM manager in a hospital to help create a new strategy that will allow the department to use benchmarking for better coding production.

1. It is important to establish your benchmarking goals. Define the most important areas in which you want to increase coding productivity and decide what metrics will be used to track progress.
2. You need to establish benchmarks. Next you must identify the benchmarks that you use for evaluating your coding productivity. You can find industry benchmarks and best practices as well as other hospitals who are doing well in coding production.
3. Analyze data. Collect information about the code you are producing and compare that with your benchmarks. To identify where your efforts are failing and areas for improvement, analyze the data.
4. You can develop improvement strategies once you identify areas you need to improve. This could include processes improvements, technological upgrades or staff training programs.
5. Make changes. Once your improvement plans have been developed, you can implement them and track the results. You can track your progress, and adjust as necessary to reach your goals.
6. Continue to improve: Benchmarking should be an ongoing process. You need to continue monitoring your code production and comparing it with industry benchmarks. Continuously improve: Identify areas of improvement and create strategies for addressing them.

You can benchmark to improve code production within your department, and help achieve the strategic goals.