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A patient-record supporting treatment cost determination
1Technological Education Institute of Athens, Medical Instrumentation Technology Department, 12210 Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
The aim of this project was the development of a simple Patient Record Tool, supporting health-care professionals to assign appropriate disease codes, related to financial and billing data, indispensable for an approximation of the mean treatment cost.
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