[Patient based care registries as a tool to follow up services]

Area of Science:

• Health Services Research
• Medical Informatics
• Healthcare Management

Context:

• The Federation of Swedish County Councils initiated a collaborative project with six medical specialties.
• The initiative focuses on developing patient-based case registers for healthcare improvement.
• This involves active participation from medical professionals in a process-oriented manner.

Purpose:

• To support and stimulate the development of patient-based case registers.
• To create a tool for following up, evaluating, developing, and managing medical units.
• To integrate inpatient and outpatient care, all medical professions, and key procedures into a unified system.

Summary:

• The project establishes individual patient-based case registers, integrating various aspects of care.
• In hematology, case costing data is merged with patient registers for enhanced cost analysis.
• This episodic perspective aids in understanding and analyzing medical services for providers and in purchaser-provider discussions.

Impact:

• Facilitates comprehensive cost analysis and comparison within medical specialties, particularly hematology.
• Provides a valuable episodic perspective for understanding and analyzing medical services.
• Enhances the management and evaluation of medical units through integrated patient data.