Spath P L
Top Health Inf Manage. 1995 Feb;15(3):17-28.
Health care providers are being asked to collect, analyze, and evaluate the results of medical processes or procedures to improve the outcome of health care services. The linkage of process to outcome is not a new science, but it has assumed greater importance in today's health care economic climate. Medical effectiveness and outcomes management studies, once within the purview of health services investigators, are moving to the individual provider setting. This evolution has tremendous impact on health information management professionals. As the guardians of the data that are indispensable for medical effectiveness and outcomes management investigations, health information management professionals play a key role in caregivers' attempts to correlate process and outcome performance measures. The article discusses the historical origins of outcomes management, the prominence of outcomes management in health care reform activities, and the responsibilities of health information management professionals in these strategic initiatives.
医疗服务提供者被要求收集、分析和评估医疗流程或程序的结果，以改善医疗服务的成果。过程与结果的关联并非一门新学科，但在当今的医疗经济环境中，它已变得更为重要。曾经属于卫生服务研究人员范畴的医疗有效性和结果管理研究，正转向个体医疗服务提供者层面。这一演变对健康信息管理专业人员产生了巨大影响。作为医疗有效性和结果管理调查不可或缺的数据守护者，健康信息管理专业人员在医护人员试图关联过程和结果绩效指标的过程中发挥着关键作用。本文讨论了结果管理的历史起源、结果管理在医疗改革活动中的突出地位，以及健康信息管理专业人员在这些战略举措中的职责。
