New XML2007 quality reporting 2008 many hospitals report the structured quality also in the year 2008 voluntarily. It aims to underpin the performance compared to the patients with current numbers and to provide information about the internal quality events. To do this, the Internet as the ideal transport medium is. Because more and more people take advantage of the opportunity, in addition to the recommendation of the doctor even structured information of hospitals to find, then make a decision about an upcoming hospital stay. Because the legislature every two years mandatory requires quality report, the local government partners involved no common approach could agree: the official data adoption Center is closed, the necessary data format for delivery has not been defined.
The clinics still a convenient way to give, in 2008 for the data year 2007 to produce their reports and the patient about the current Quality happen to know three providers have joined forces, who were pioneers in this area in the past. The Federal Association of company health insurance funds with the BKK-Klinikfinder.de operates a search engine for patients with very detailed information on hospital services. The hospitals the company empira provides software reporting available. The portals Qualitaetsbericht.de and Krankenhaus.de closely match hospitals and patients through direct possibility to update the data. To make the reporting 2008 technically possible, XML2007 format developed by the three partners. At first glance it hardly differs from the format of the previous year, however, the incorporation of many small regulatory changes was required to fit the format to the data of the current year. Empira offers the opportunity to produce quality reports for the data year 2007 the clinics as a technical developer of the data format immediately. Also other software vendors can use this format for reporting take advantage of.
Reports are accepted by BKK Bundesverband and the portals Qualitaetsbericht.de and Krankenhaus.de. Contact information is here: Andy Florance. With these two partners two particularly innovative actors on cash and hospital page have again clearly positioned themselves for more transparency in the hospital landscape. Hospitals for more information about the voluntary submission option of the quality records at XML2007 format on: software QBX of company empira to the creation of the quality report information for publication in the BKK-Klinikfinder.de of the BKK Bundesverband information for publication on the portals Krankenhaus.de and Qualitaetsbericht.de about the BKK the BKK Bundesverband Association is the umbrella organization of approximately 170 German company health insurance funds and their eight regional associations. BKK-klinikfinder.de about empira software the empira Software GmbH is an innovative software company providing customer projects and your own products developed. With the software QBX (hospital quality report Manager) provides a comprehensive software empira to the Structured quality report ready, offers more than just data collection. about the KSB hospital Consulting GmbH the KSB hospital consulting is a physician-owned company that supports the link between quality and economy in the hospital. Since 2001 she cooperates closely with hospitals, to stand this despite increasing financial pressure in the further qualitative services to the side.