NURS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ubiquitous Computing, Medline, Medical Device
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3 functions of the healthcare system: financing, funding lump sum payment given to hospitals based on cases. Fee for service: physicians are paid separately for each service they provide: delivery. Blended payment: combines capitation and salary models. Program budgeting and marginal analysis: can link physicians to organizational decision making processes. Activity based costing: a way to achieve better management accounting information in healthcare. Improve the way indirect costs are assigned. Case-costing: provide a way to operationalize activity based costing. Health based allocation model: takes both population and provider based factors into account, based on direct measures of health services. Information science and computer organizations: special interest groups. 2: health computing organizations, user groups, local groups. Clinical information system (cis): collection of programs and hardware that supports the entry, retrieval, update analysis of client and clinical information related to care. Client focused cis: client demographics, order entry, resullts reporting, clinical planning, documentation and pathways.