DTA ( Diagnosebezogene Tätigkeitsanalyse / diagnosis related work analysis )

- a system for the record of performance relating to patients in institutions of the health service

Data capture, called DTA, allows to analyse and judge single activities related to diagnosis in the field of hospital and nursing with reasonable efforts. This analysis is supported by the most modern statistic procedure and the employment of electronic capture units. Target groups of this data capture are all institutions of the health service. This may be clinics, hospitals, in-patient facilities for old people's and nursing care and facilities for ambulance care. Need for information exists on several levels:

• about 55 - 75 % of the costs are caused by the personnel in hospitals. The exact (personnel-) costs per group in the single houses is neither known nor can't be shown at present.

• the share of costs of the different professional groups concerning the different groups of the DRG is not clarified.

• the work on the patient is only insufficiently documented ( each not documented work is like a not produced work).

• The pressure and necessity to capture intern  work processes and to optimize them  in consequence become bigger all the time.

• For each professional group it will be of importance to present   the structure and  content of the performance  transparently and to be able to give reasons for them.

Only on the basis of hard data intern benchmarking and a purposive control of cost and work processes can be realised. DocuMix has been occupying with this requirements in the health service and has developped a new instrument: