PUB380 Casemix and Activity Based Funding

Casemix describes the nature of health service outputs or the type of cases treated. In the past, broad patient groups such as medical, obstetric, surgical, outpatients have been used to describe the casemix of a health care facility. However, in recent years Commonwealth and State health authorities have been introducing requirements for more detailed casemix reporting, based on demographic and coded clinical data abstracted from medical records and information systems. A Health Information Manager needs to understand how to source, analyse and report on health data to facilitate its use for assessment of activity and for purchasing of services.