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Harnessing casemix data: Positive spillover effects for health system performance and responsiveness

VBHC in public health systems: Tracking outcomes and costs at a population level

Turning administrative data in actionable quality indicators: the Belgian Healthcare Landscape

Casemix at 40, 30 and 20 years, Looking back and moving forward

Using payment to transform care: Hospital and post-hospital care in the US

Key Success Factors for Casemix Implementation — How Respecting National Factors, Engaging Professional Cultures and Inspired Leadership Make Casemix a Key Factor in Creating a Better Health System

Coder training accreditation and lifelong learning for retention and development of clinical coding skills

Casemix — from Fundamentals to Applications

From documentation to quality: enhancing global quality measures in healthcare policy through CDI

Promoting high quality cost data: strategies and lessons learned

From Casemix to Clinics — how can we use Casemix data for clinical improvements?

Case mix costing approaches and methods

The HIM and coding workforce in an AI world: opportunities for the casemix community to set systems up for success

Implementation of a new reimbursement system in Iceland's hospital services. Pros and cons of providing services to a small and sometimes rural population.

Gudmann Olafsson (Iceland)

Navigating the Implementation Challenges of Healthcare Reforms in Latvia

Anete Baškevica (Latvia)

Costing and data analysis in Denmark

Niels Hansen (Denmark)

A statistical analysis on the impact of COVID-19 on hospital activity

Samuel Webster (Australia), Kees van Gool (Australia), Sarah Neville (Australia)

Understanding the Complex Patient: Multimorbidity and Frailty

Kevin Ratcliffe (Australia)

Tracking and Preventing Outpatient Procedural Complications

Felisha Bochantin (United States), Miki Patterson (United States)

Identification of Outliers from Case-mix analysis in a Teaching hospital in Malaysia.

Mohamad Helmi Mohamad Yasim (Malaysia), Maznah Dahlui (Malaysia), Amirah Azzeri (Malaysia), Jin Ziang Tok (Malaysia), Hafiz Jaafar (Malaysia), Mohmmad Salleh Yahya (Malaysia), Nazirah Hasnan (Malaysia)

Impact of COVID-19 on Hospital Admissions: A DRG-Based Comparative Analysis in Croatia, Germany, and Australia

Karolina Kalanj (Croatia), Benjamin Friedrichson (Germany), Richard Marshall (Australia), Jan Kloka (Germany), Ante Orbanić (Croatia), Mirta Peček (Croatia), Stjepan Orešković (Croatia)

Information Quality Advocates - action and learning progress report.

Paul O'Connor (Australia), Beth Reid (Australia), Lee Ridoutt (Australia)

A national pathway to data improvement: empowering healthcare services to improve their own data in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Jennifer Nobbs (United Kingdom), Sharon Roumanos (Australia)

Working with national clinical audits to improve clinical documentation for coding - examples from Ireland.

Jacqui Curley (Ireland), Marie Glynn (Ireland), Helen Nolan (Ireland)

The Missing Link - Clinical Documentation

Kathleen Wilton (Australia)

Data quality in different ICD10 systems: comparison of a block contract funded system and an activity based funded system

Rebecca Ziffer (Australia), Alex Kafetz (United Kingdom), Sharon Roumanos (Australia)

Return to Activity Based Funding in Ireland post COVID-19

Brian Donovan (Ireland)

Developing a national mental health care classification for activity based funding

Laura Harris (Australia), Dominic Tate (Australia), Rosie Ohlsson (Australia), Georgina Young (Australia)

The journey to activity-based funding for community mental health care delivered by Australian public hospitals

Julia Conway (Australia)

Funding Hospitals in a moving environment: international perspective

Jean Marie Rodrigues (France), Béatrice Trombert (France)

Sector-Equal Remuneration through Hybrid DRGs - Classification and Calculation Model

Christian Jacobs (Germany), Frank Heimig (Germany), Isabel Huber (Germany)

DRG for rehabilitation in Sweden - joint use of three health-related classifications

Ann-Helene Almborg (Sweden), Ralph Dahlgren (Sweden)

Quality of Clinical coding

Emma Kajander (Finland)

Diagnosis related grouping in assessing treatment measures, dental visiting patterns and examination intervals among patients to the five Public Dental Service (PDS) units in Finland.

Jari Linden (Finland)

Estimating direct diabetes-related healthcare expenditures in Slovenia to improve diabetes care in inform future resource allocation decisions

Petra Došenović Bonča (Slovenia), Dalibor Gavrić (Slovenia), Karmen Janša (Slovenia), Jože Sambt (Slovenia)

Re-introducing ABF in Ireland - understanding hospital performance

Mark O'Connor (Ireland)

Analysing Length of stay variation in metropolitan Adelaide public acute hospitals

Stephen Duckett (Australia), Nick Cugley (Australia)

Testing the French casemix system on a Belgian hospital discharge dataset: feasibility and challenges

Andre Orban (Belgium)

Improving regional comparative analysis of quality and efficiency using a needs-based population classification system (PopGrouper)

Chrissa Tsatsaronis (Germany), Wilm Quentin (Germany), Karen Kinder (Germany), Ulrike Nimptsch (Germany), Chrissa Tsatsaronis (Germany), Anika Kreutzberg (Germany), Reinhard Busse (Germany)

Outcomes Measurement & Evaluation in Population Health using the ACG System

Stephen Sutch (United Kingdom), James Barrett (United Kingdom), Paul Molyneux (United Kingdom)

Secondary use of Administrative Data to Compare Healthcare Provider Quality

Dalibor Gavrić (Slovenia), Karmen Janša (Slovenia)

Innovation in an Activity Based Funding Environment

Normand Lantagne (Canada), Pierre Leveille (Canada)

Hospital Reform: A New Hospital Planning and Financing System with Hospital Service Groups

Isabel Huber (Germany), Christian Jacobs (Germany), Frank Heimig (Germany)

Comparative Analysis of Casemix-based Efficiency Measures and Use among three countries: South Korea, France and US.

Euasin Joung (South Korea), Rodrigues Jean Marie (France), Gilwon Kang (South Korea), Insoo Chung (United States)

Classes and scores: How will casemix funding evolve?

Jim Pearse (Australia), Patrick McElduff (Australia), Susan Mitchell (Australia), Rex Parsons (Australia)

Estonian experience in translating ICD-11 and thoughts on the implementation of the updated classification

Ruth Erm (Estonia)

Preparing Sweden for the transition to ICD-11

Katriina Pernaa Bäckman (Sweden), Anders Jacobsson (Sweden), Veronica Myrelid (Sweden), Olafr Steinum (Sweden)

Challenges in Implementing an AI-Based Autocoding Tool to Enhance Coding Efficiency

Karen Pien (Belgium), Maarten Lambrecht (Belgium), Elric Verbruggen (Belgium)

Pilot experiences in the UK and Australia - Journey to Computer Assisted Coding and Automation

Cheryl McCullagh (Australia), Sharon Roumanos (Australia)

3M FileInspector - a toolbox for coding, casemix control and quality

Daniel Schmithausen (Germany)

Assessing the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation in patients after myocardial infarction using national-level case-mix data

Borut Jug (Slovenia), Dalibor Gavrić (Slovenia), Irena Ograjenšek (Slovenia), Petra Došenović Bonča (Slovenia)

A Comparative Analysis of Case-mix and Hospital Tariff for Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery and Lower Segment Caesarean Section Cases in Three Different Types of Hospitals in Indonesia.

Maznah Dahlui (Malaysia), Mohd Hafiz Jaafar (Malaysia), Amirah Azzeri (Malaysia), Thinni Nurul Rochmah (Indonesia), Mohammad Helmi Mohamad Yasim (Malaysia)

Update on the Charlson and Elixhauser conditions as predictors or 12-month mortality

Patrick McElduff (Australia), Jim Pearse (Australia), Deniza Mazevska (Australia)

Developing and deploying a Patient Level Payment System for Public Patients treated in Private Hospitals. - The UAN Website System

Brian Mccarthy (Ireland), Paval Kuriakose (Ireland), Phil Dunne (Ireland), Richard Ryan (Ireland), Joe Hunter (Ireland)

Implementation of AR-DRG reimbursement for public providers contracting in Saudi Arabia's mandatory private health insurance scheme

Husein Reka (Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Almaghrabi (Saudi Arabia), Omar Alshanabah (Saudi Arabia), Shabab Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

Assessing funding inequalities between elective and urgent surgeries of the musculoskeletal system in French funding mechanisms.

Pierrick Charbonnier (France), Joëlle Dubois (France), Bastien Fages (France), Catherine Le Gouhir (France), Nathalie Rigollot (France), Véronique Sauvadet (France), Raphaël Schwob (France)

Developing financing systems to deal with future challenges

Eva Wensaas (Norway)

Integrated care and digital health care services related to the case-mix and financing system in Norway

Kristin Dahlen (Norway)

Diagnosis related grouping in assessing the effectiveness of integrating social and health care services - the importance of casemix for the comparability and usability of the results

Miika Linna (Finland)

Is casemix systems still relevant in a fully tax financed healthcare system?

Pernille Rosling (Denmark)

A machine learning approach for outlier detection in cost data used for RIW regression models in Canada.

Koffi Kpelitse (Canada), Rachel Zhang (Canada), Victoria Zhu (Canada), Sheril Perry (Canada)

Calculating economic outcomes of using innovative technology using a novel health-economic modeling tool

Virginia Merico (Germany), Michael Wilke (Germany)

Cost of Intermediate and Long-Term Care: Which Payment Method for Thailand?

Krittika Khotthong (Thailand), Arthorn Riewpaiboon (Thailand), Sitaporn Youngkong (Thailand), Supasit Pannarunothai (Thailand)

CHALLENGES OF SERBIAN DRG COSTING

Simo Vuković (Serbia), Drasko Lazović (Serbia), Marina Topalovic (Serbia), Mirjana Milošević (Serbia), Biljana Trivić Ivanović (Serbia)

Innovation in classification development - The Australian Non-Admitted Patient Classification Project

Laura Harris (Australia), Dominic Tate (Australia), Georgina Young (Australia)

A new case-mix based payment system for the psychiatric day care sector in Switzerland: Proposed methods for the development of an adequate tariff structure

Samuel Noll (Switzerland), Mischa Hintermann (Switzerland), Simon Hölzer (Switzerland)

The PopGrouper: Development of a population-based classification system for the cross-sectoral determination of morbidity-related care needs

Karen Kinder (Germany), Wilm Quentin (Germany), Ulrike Nimptsch (Germany), Chrissa Tsatsaronis (Germany), Anika Kreutzberg (Germany), Reinhard Busse (Germany)

Reforming the German hospital system: A paradigm shift in patient classification?

Natascha Andres (Germany)

Are Patient Classification Systems ready for Medicine's Second Great Hippocratic age?

Mary Black (United Kingdom)

Province wide implementation of patient level costing: foundational to Patient-Based Funding and Value Based Healthcare.

Christian Pepin (Canada), Charles Cockburn (Canada)

Development of a Paying for Quality (P4Q) Approach for Schizophrenia Care in Ontario, Canada

Imtiaz Daniel (Canada), Fiona Fu (Canada), Philip Klassen (Canada)

Bundled payments - What makes them work? Lessons from the US

Sarah E Neville (Australia)

LEVERAGING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR PRECISION COST ANALYSIS AND INTEGRATED DATA INSIGHTS IN SLOVENIAN HOSPITALS

Peter Benedik (Slovenia), Marjana Pikec (Slovenia), Mojca Cvirn (Slovenia)

ATIH study on drugs : a new way to regulate

Ines Bozinovic (France), Diane Paillet (France), Sophie Guéant (France), Joëlle Dubois (France)

Person-centered and integrated care for patients with complex needs - a Norwegian case on how to move from concept to new evidence based health care services

Bendik Hegna (Norway), Olav Lenvik (Norway), Eivind Dalgaard (Norway)

The Added Value of Using Primary Care Data in Population Health Management

James Barrett (United Kingdom), Paul Molyneux (United Kingdom), Stephen Sutch (United States)

Developing risk-adjusted primary care capitation payments in Ontario, Canada using the CIHI population grouper.

Lyn Sibley (Canada), Yin Li (Canada), Yvonne Rosehart (Canada), Debra Chen (Canada), Rick Glazier (Canada), Jasmin Kantarevic (Canada)

Reviewing Activity Based Funding outcomes at the time of coding

Judy Finn (Australia)

Sleeping Beauty Awakens: Rewarding Coders in the New DRG Era - Ever Since the Phoenicians, Gratitude Has Currency:

Jana Wahl (Slovenia), Marko Jug (Slovenia), Robert Senica (Slovenia), Tatjana Pavlin (Slovenia), Vesna Mesojednik (Slovenia), Anna Coote (Australia)

Data Quality Education Sessions for Coding Staff, what's happening out there?

Jacqui Curley (Ireland), Helen Nolan (Ireland)

Australia's journey towards ICD-11

Anne Elsworthy (Australia)

French ICD-10 to ICD-11 transition impact study and implementation project

Ines Bozinovic (France), Sophie Guéant (France), Yasmine Mokaddem (France), Etienne Joubert (France), Joëlle Dubois (France)

Towards a ICD11 SNOMED CT common use for Morbidity and Casemix

Béatrice Trombert (France), Constant Kone (Cote d'Ivoire), Jean Marie Rodrigues (France)

Casemix, readmissions and patient perspectives in Lebanon: impact of the national hospital pay-for-performance initiatives.

Jade Khalife (Denmark)

Casemix Revolution: Maximizing Healthcare Value through National Initiatives

Manal Al Khaliefah (Saudi Arabia), Hefin Jones (Saudi Arabia), Neha Taneja (Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Alshehri (Saudi Arabia), Suliman Alomran (Saudi Arabia), Saud Alhamami (Saudi Arabia), Ehab Atassi (Saudi Arabia)

Addressing the Staff Shortage and Ensuring Patient Safety in German Hospitals: The Role of Data Acquisition and Analysis

Marion Preussiger (Germany), Isabel Huber (Germany), Thomas Cibis (Germany), Frank Heimig (Germany)

Exploring integration of pharmaceutical data into CIHI Population Grouping Methodology - a pilot study

Yvonne Rosehart (Canada), Debra Chen (Canada), Jing Jin (Canada)

Improving planning for cross-sectoral health care provision using a needs-based population classification system (PopGrouper)

Chrissa Tsatsaronis (Germany), Karen Kinder (Germany), Wilm Quentin (Germany), Ulrike Nimptsch (Germany), Anika Kreutzberg (Germany), Reinhard Busse (Germany)

Mind The Gaps: A Novel Approach to Population Health Planning and Hospital Service Gap Analysis

Yingyu Feng (Australia), Aladin Niazmand (United Arab Emirates)

Examining person level social determinants of health recorded in routinely collected healthcare data: insights into effects on healthcare utilisation

Paul Molyneux (United Kingdom), James Barrett (United Kingdom), Steve Sutch (United Kingdom)

Audits over the billing of medical healthcare services in the field of hospital care

Tina Medved (Slovenia), Marjana Gaber (Slovenia)

Medical time spent on producing health data in French hospitals and organizational leverages to reduce it

Etienne Joubert (France), Fabien Joubert (France), Ines Bozinovic (France), Sophie Guéant (France)

DRG: Establishing and strengthening a robust medical coding auditing program in Greece.

Charalampos Platis (Greece), Leonidas Papaioannou (Greece), Konstantinos Chalkias (Greece), Ioannis Boutas (Greece), Evgenia Christopoulou (Greece), Eirini Tzourtzoukli (Greece), Pantelis Messaropoulos (Greece)

The Fair Play Advantage: Navigating the DRG System with Ethical Coding for Optimal Performance - strategies to Identifying and Mitigating Gaming and Undercoding

Jana Wahl (Slovenia), Vesna Mesojednik (Slovenia), Simon Zupan (Slovenia), Marko Jug (Slovenia)

Nordic Collaboration in NordDRG System Maintenance

Kristiina Kahur (Finland)

Discussing with your casemix specification with natural language: how to make Large Language Models (LLM) understand NordDRG logic?

Tapio Pitkäranta (Finland)

Building a DRG-classification for Hospital Home Care in France: challenges and outcomes

Vincent Pisetta (France), Raphael Simon (France), Caroline Martin (France), Raphaël Schwob (France), Joëlle Dubois (France)

Restructuring the DRG system in rehabilitation and psychiatry: Cost assessment made easy with an analysis tool

Samuel Noll (Switzerland), Johannes Kofler (Switzerland), Stefan Oesch (Switzerland), Simon Hölzer (Switzerland)

Easy-ICD - a tool to predict ICD-10 gastro codes from Swedish discharge summaries

Andrius Budrionis (Norway), Taridzo Chomutare (Norway), Therese Olsen Svenning (Norway), Hercules Dalianis (Norway)

Comparative analysis of the efficiency and quality of services in two groups of general hospitals in Serbia

Simo Vuković (Serbia), Mirjana Milošević (Serbia), Biljana Trivić Ivanović (Serbia), Marina Topalovic (Serbia), Drasko Lazović (Serbia)

Financial Implications of Inaccurate Clinical Documentations of Thirty Days Readmission Rate of Acute Exacerbation Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease in a Non Specialist Hospital Northern Malaysia

Noor Shahieddah Fazil (Malaysia), Fawzi Zaidan Ali (Malaysia), Nur Atfina Sabri (Malaysia), Mohd Ridzwan Shahari (Malaysia)

Defining Best Practice across countries: International Health Information Management Literature Review

Stephen Badham (Australia), Manal Nasser Al Khalifah (Saudi Arabia), Sharon Roumanos (Australia)

Differences in organising children's orthodontic care in Finnish Public Dental Service

Jari Linden (Finland)

Pediatric Inpatients Cost 2019-2023 - Study Report Serbia

Simo Vuković (Serbia), Nikola Savić (Serbia), Marina Topalovic (Serbia), Mirjana Milošević (Serbia)

Improving the information basis for decision makers: The critical validity of applying DRG-based patient severity indices for areas of application other than reimbursement¹.

Luka Dr. Bareis (Germany)

Challenges in updating the DRG system

Martina Zorko Kodelja (Slovenia)

Perception and knowledge of Korean doctors on the New KDRG payment system

Byoongyong Choi (South Korea), Sukil Kim (South Korea)

Development and Implementation of the Korean Rehabilitation Patient Group (KRPG) Severity Scale: Enhancing Precision in Rehabilitation Patient Classification

Hyunhee Shin (South Korea), Eunkyoung Park (South Korea)

Using new classification variables: Subdividing Disease Groups for Acute Stroke Patients

Eunsun Kwon (South Korea), Sunim Shin (South Korea)