Design and evaluation of a service oriented architecture for paperless ICU tarification.
J Med Syst
; 36(3): 1403-16, 2012 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-20922467
ABSTRACT
The computerization of Intensive Care Units provides an overwhelming amount of electronic data for both medical and financial analysis. However, the current tarification, which is the process to tick and count patients' procedures, is still a repetitive, time-consuming process on paper. Nurses and secretaries keep track manually of the patients' medical procedures. This paper describes the design methodology and implementation of automated tarification services. In this study we investigate if the tarification can be modeled in service oriented architecture as a composition of interacting services. Services are responsible for data collection, automatic assignment of records to physicians and application of rules. Performance is evaluated in terms of execution time, cost evaluation and return on investment based on tracking of real procedures. The services provide high flexibility in terms of maintenance, integration and rules support. It is shown that services offer a more accurate, less time-consuming and cost-effective tarification.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Redes de Comunicación de Computadores
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Registros Electrónicos de Salud
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Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos
Tipo de estudio:
Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Med Syst
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Bélgica