Enabling clinically meaningful classification development

The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) is pleased to release a new webinar series as part of its educational offering for local and international health professionals. 

The series is being introduced as an extension of the Activity Based Funding Conference series, where a collection of dynamic webinars are set to be delivered over the next 12 months.

 

The live webinars will provide health professionals with the opportunity to engage directly with IHPA senior leaders and technical advisors in an extended Q&A session, to learn more about how their work supports pricing and funding of public hospital services in Australia.

 

Session three

Enabling clinically meaningful classification development

Classifications provide a clinically meaningful way of relating patients, their treatment and associated costs of providing health care with the use of nationally consistent coded systems.

In order to effectively measure, benchmark and allocate resources, classifications are continually developed and refined to ensure they remain robust and clinically relevant for comparative analysis of the cost and activity data over time.

This session delves into the features of the classification systems that are maintained by IHPA under the six service categories of admitted care, subacute and non-acute care, emergency care, non-admitted care, mental health care and teaching, training and research.

Four senior leaders discuss the role of the health classifications in providing a common unit of measurement based on weighting services on their clinical complexity.