Classification systems in the hospitals

Classification systems in health care in the Czech Republic come increasingly to the fore when billing for services provided by hospitals. This work presents a review of classification systems and is focused on systems dealing with economic demands of hospitalization (DRG) in Czech Republic and abroad. In the Czech Republic, hospitals are working with IR-DRG system; therefore it is discussed in a separate chapter. The work also includes design of web application using technologies from InterSystems. The application serves as a module of the hospital information system Clinicom to calculate hospitalization rates by classification into the DRG