Implementation of Casemix system in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by using UNU-CBG grouper: is it feasible to support apex programme?

Background The framework of “Accelerated Programme for Excellence” (APEX), modeled on the German Universities Excellence Initiative, is profoundly important and decisive initiative for Malaysian higher education. The selection of USM under APEX initiative is based on the university’s state of readiness, preparedness and transformation plan for change that focused on diagnostics, medical biotechnology, waste management, pharmaceuticals, nano-technology, membrane technology and vaccines. Becoming an APEX University, HUSM indeed is committed to achieve certain goals in their functions as teaching and referral hospital in the east cost of Peninsular Malaysia. One of the priority goals is to ensure that resources and allocation for each department within hospital is sufficiently distributed to ensure health care delivery is efficient and maintain at high quality to the patient. Selection of UNU-CBG Grouper is justified from the universal and dynamic functions of this Grouper that able to cater for various severity levels and able to capture an Acute (in-patient and outpatient), Sub-Acute (moderately complex cases) as well as Chronic Case (long stay cases) patients.