A health Record standard (ASTM E2369-05) specification that constitutes a patient health summary and contains the most relevant and timely core health information to be sent, usually in electronic form, from one care giver to another. It contains various sections such as patient demographics, insurance information, diagnosis and problem list, medications, allergies and care plan, representing a “snapshot” of a patient’s health data that can be useful or possibly lifesaving, if available at the time of clinical encounter. The CCR standard is expressed in the standard data interchange language known as XML and can potentially be created, read and interpreted by any EHR and EMR software applications. A CCR can also be exported in other formats, such as pdf, doc, and so on.
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Optimization of Medical Supervision, Management, and Reimbursement of Contemporary Home Care
B. Spyropoulos (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), M. Botsivaly (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), A. Tzavaras (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece), and K. Koutsourakis (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch128
Abstract
Adapting medical and managerial decision-making (Spyropoulos, 2006a) in the modern home care environment is a cardinal prerequisite, in order to ensure, first, an economically sustainable development of the aging population healthcare (Scarcelli, 2001); second, the rehabilitation services required for impaired persons; and finally, the psychosomatic support necessary in the developed countries, during the next decades. Thus, a strategic question emerges that is how home care will be medically supervised and financially reimbursed. The present study attempts to describe the present situation and the contemporary technological trends in home care; more specific, it is focused on a system developed by our team that intends first, to enable the optimal documentation of the provided home care, and second, to facilitate the acquisition of all relevant financial data, leading to a fair remuneration of the services offered.