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Definition

You model the organizational structure of your hospital using organizational units (OUs) that you bring into relation with one another. Whenever you create an organizational unit, you assign an organizational category to it. The organizational category determines which organizational units can be brought into relation with one another.

You can define organizational categories of your choosing in Customizing for IS-H. For more information about this, see the section entitled Define Organizational Unit Categories of the IS-H Implementation Guide.

Example

Examples of such categories are:

– Clinic

– Department

– Care unit

– Admitting facility

– Outpatient clinic

You create an organizational unit with the appropriate organizational category for each organizational unit in your institution. The organizational category determines which attributes you can store for an organizational unit.

Example

Examples of such attributes are:

– Outpatient treatment

– Departmental assignment

– Nursing assignment

– Supports inter-departmental bed assignment

Use

The organizational structure you define in the IS-H System is used in the following areas:

Area

Use

Patient assignment

The attributes of an OU determine whether it can be used as a departmental, nursing and/or treatment OU in the patient assignment.

Service entry/billing

In the master data of an OU, you can specify the service that should be automatically entered and billed for a patient’s stay in this OU. The organizational structure determines whether you can store different services on different levels of the organizational hierarchy.

Statistics

Statistics evaluate specific data in relation to organizational units, for example the patient census, and total the determined values according to the organizational hierarchy.

Service transfer into Controlling

To be able to transfer services into Controlling, you must first have assigned organizational units to cost centers. You should, therefore, also include service facilities such as laboratories and X-ray departments in the organizational hierarchy, so as to be able to post to the corresponding cost centers when carrying out internal activity allocation.

 

Prior to creating an organizational structure, you should analyze which results you require in the respective areas and create the organizational structure accordingly.