DRG im berufgenossenschaftlichen Heilverfahren

DRG-type hospital payment in Germany: The G-DRG system

In Germany, there are about 2100 hospitals providing care for about 17 million inpatient cases per year.3 Hospitals are financed through a system of ‘dual financing’, which means that they receive funds from two different sources: infrastructure investments are covered directly by tax-funded state budgets, whereas operating costs are paid mostly by sickness funds and private health insurers.4 T...

What is DRG / PPS ?

A trial project to introduce a Japanese version of the diagnostic related group/prospective payment system (DRG/PPS) was conducted at ten national hospitals from November 1998. However, many problems have surfaced—foremost among them were incomplete DRG classifications, inadequate reviews of payment amounts that simply reflected the past performance of the hospitals, and incomplete databases th...

Kundengemeinschaften im Web 2.0: Blogstrategien im Kundenmanagement

International-Refined (IR-DRG) versus 3M All Patients Refined DRG (APR-DRG) to describe and predict costs of ambulatory patients in 42 Belgium hospitals.Peter

Conclusions This research is based on an ongoing project called ‘Matrix’. The ‘Matrix’ project collects administrative, casemix and charge data from more than 40 Belgian hospitals for inpatients and outpatients (one day hospital). Text shouldn’t be smaller than 24 pt., this will keep your poster legible from normal viewing distance. Before adding an entire new set of IRDRG categories to the pre...

Cancer Patient Flows Discovery in DRG Databases

In France, cancer care is evolving to the design of regional networks, so as to coordinate expertise, services and resources allocation. Existing information systems along with data-mining tools can provide better knowledge on the distribution of patient flows. We used one year data of the French Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) based system to perform our analysis. Formal Concept Analysis has b...