Versorgungssicherung unter DRG-Bedingungen

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...

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Blutungen unter Antikoagulanzientherapie

Anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) is effective in the prevention and treatment of thrombotic complications in many clinical conditions, including atrial fibrillation (that represents today the most frequent indication for anticoagulant treatment), venous thromboembolism, acute coronary syndromes and after invasive cardiac procedures. Bleeding is the most important complication o...

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...

OpenID unter Sicherheitsgesichtspunkten

Der Authentifizierungsstandard OpenID ist im Web-2.0-Umfeld weit verbreitet. Ziel von OpenID ist es, dem Benutzer eine für alle OpenID unterstützenden Webseiten die gleiche Anmeldeprozedur zur Verfügung zu stellen, die zur Authentifizierung auf einen zentralen Dienst zugreift, so dass der Benutzer lediglich ein einziges Passwort verwalten muss. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet den OpenID-Standard unte...