Method for performing activity based costing for health care provider facilities

摘要

A method of modelling health care procedures comprises the steps of storing data relating to encounters, tasks and resources, incorporating then into a clinical pathway and displaying the resultant pathway on a screen. Cost may be entered for each task, encounter or resource in a pathway and used to determine a cost for the full pathway. Costs may also be determined on a duration basis for reusable items in the pathway. The data for a task may include a number of subtasks. Data indicating the sequential nature of the procedure is also stored, preferably in a series of steps tables (Fig 20-22) and indicates the order of a task and if a task is undertaken sequentially or in parallel with another. The data is presented in a number of windows. A first window 12 shows the pathway as a collection of individual encounters. When an encounter is highlighted details of the encounter 66 are shown in a second window 14 together with a display in a third area of the screen (16, Fig 1) indicating a series of sub tasks 88-108 or resources to be undertaken pertaining to that encounter.