System and method for clinical cost capture on a job cost basis

摘要

A method and system for generating job costing data are provided. The method may include performing job costing in a healthcare environment by automatically retrieving information including a group of descriptive attributes from a data store. The group of descriptive attributes may form a patient encounter and the descriptive attributes may represent content electronically captured during patient care. The method may additionally include associating cost data from the data store with each descriptive attribute representative of the patient encounter retrieved from the data store and combining the descriptive attribute costs for the group of descriptive attributes to determine a patient encounter cost.