Introduction
- The heterogeneity and structural diversity of financial system’s elements;
- The versatility of sources of financing for health care -> multivariate financial management;
- Economic interests of health care organizations and their financial activities.
- The effectiveness of the macroeconomic policy
Finance in Health Care Organizations and Financial Activities
- Estimating costs and profitability, planning, and budgeting;
- Managing financial operations;
- Financing decisions;
- Capital investment decisions;
- Financial reporting;
- Financial and operational analysis.
Strategic Planning
- Development of a general strategy;
- Strategic controlling;
- Human resource management;
- Risk management; ▪ Quality management; ▪ Legal support.
- Timely adaptation to the changing factors and effective distribution and use of the resources.
Budgeting
- Clearer statement goals and objectives;
- “Digitization” of the company’s strategic goals;
- Understanding the number of resources required to achieve the set goals;
- Estimation of the investments;
- Monitoring and response to arising deviations.
Regulatory Compliance
- Legal and regulatory requirements, standards, policies, and rules
- Compliance policy (Trifilio, 2018);
- Structured following the strategic goals and objectives;
- The structure of the compliance function and the procedure for managing its implementation
Insurance and Reimbursement
- Insurance <-> financing model;
- Types of insurance are essential to consider when planning financial activities.
- Tasks of planning vary.
Human Resources, Human Capital, and Staffing
- Effectiveness of the health system <-> the quality of workforce (World Health Organization, 2016);
- Optimal ways to motivate labor resources, equitable distribution, and productivity;
- Cost efficiency <-> Strategic HR <-> Patient satisfaction (Oppel et al., 2017);
- Economic forces -> organization of financial activity in staffing.
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