Healthcare Management: News. Views. Education

3 . 2023

Internal audit of medical institutions in the context of digitalization

Abstract

The implementation of the National project “Healthcare service” – “Upgrade of the Service of Primary Medical Care Delivery” in the Russian healthcare system has been contemplated. A survey of the two parts of this project has been conducted – priority projects are “Creation of the integrated digital profile in the healthcare service on the basis of the Uniform State Health Information System” and “Creation of the new model of a healthcare organization which provides primary medical care”. In order to evaluate the readiness of outpatient clinics to switch to a new system of medical service and process digitalization it is suggested to apply methods of internal audit of a healthcare center, i.e. testing of the performance of outpatient clinics in accordance with the specially developed checklists to increase healthcare delivery level and healthcare center efficiency. Test procedure has been provided. Expectation effect of the methodology implication has been estimated.

Keywords:healthcare; digital profile; lean outpatient clinic; internal audit; methodology; checklists

Funding. The study had no sponsor support.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Contribution. Development of an internal audit method, conducting an audit in medical organizations, data analytics, writing an article – Ostromenskii V.V.; review of the literature, analytical work, identification of patterns, formation of conclusions, writing of the article – Ryumina E.V.; development of an internal audit method, conducting an audit in medical organizations, writing an article – Alekseeva A.A.

For citation: Ostromenskii V.V., Ryumina Е.V., Alekseeva A.A. Internal audit of medical institutions in the context of digitalization. ORGZDRAV: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie. Vestnik VSHOUZ [HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT: News, Views, Education. Bulletin of VSHOUZ]. 2023; 9 (3): 85–98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/2411-8621-2023-9-3-85-98 (in Russian)

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