Medical history: its potential in the management of hospital costs
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7796-0099
Abstract
From the point of view of health information, medical history plays a leading role, as a source of data supply for obtaining information for hospital management. That is why this study aims to identify the potential of medical history, as a source of supply of necessary data to obtain cost information, information of valuable importance for hospital management. Regarding design, it is a mixed source investigation: field and documentary research, with descriptive scope. The interview was used as a technique for conducting the investigation and the interview guide as an instrument. In addition, a documentary review and articulation of theories with empirical evidence was carried out. It was found that the medical history or health record contains, among other aspects, the relationship of medical acts and procedures performed during a patient's stay in the hospital center, medical acts and procedures susceptible of generating costs. Among the potentialities of medical history is that it is a tool that allows the knowledge of cost elements generated in patient care. In this sense, it is concluded that the medical history is linked to the information system, being useful for hospital management and cost control. It is concluded that the medical history generates data that can feed the information system for the management of hospital costs, in order to provide quality services to patients and optimization of management.
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