title: Activities identification for activity-based cost/management applications of the diagnostics outpatient procedures.
abstract: One of the most challenging problems facing healthcare providers is to determine the actual cost for their procedures, which is important for internal accounting and price justification to insurers. The objective of this paper is to find suitable categories to identify the diagnostic outpatient medical procedures and translate them from functional orientation to process orientation. A hierarchal task tree is developed based on a classification schema of procedural activities. Each procedure is seen as a process consisting of a number of activities. This makes a powerful foundation for activity-based cost/management implementation and provides enough information to discover the value-added and non-value-added activities that assist in process improvement and eventually may lead to cost reduction. Work measurement techniques are used to identify the standard time of each activity at the lowest level of the task tree. A real case study at a private hospital is presented to demonstrate the proposed methodology.
authors: Industrial Engineering Department at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. rashdan@just.edu.jo
authors: Abdalla
authors: A
authors: Alrashdan
authors: Amer
authors: A
authors: Momani
authors: Tamador
authors: T
authors: Ababneh
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000379:methods; D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis