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Nordic Casemix Centre's responsibilities

The Nordic Casemix Centre is responsible for practical work putting the decisions of the board in action. The centre co-ordinates the maintenance, updating and further development of the NordDRG system based on the strategic decisions of the steering board. The Director of the Centre is responsible for the activities at the Centre reports direct to the steering board.

The Centre may act on behalf of the NordDRG owners as stated in the agreements. The centre is responsible for preparing agreements with the NordDRG software provider(s) for the board. Matters concerning the use of the NordDRG system outside the Nordic countries may only be prepared after preliminary acceptance of the board.

The Centre coordinates the NordDRG expert network collaboration and arranges the meetings in the steering board and in the expert network, including a meeting secretary and necessary experts for the meetings. The Centre also runs the web-based discussion forum supporting the collaboration (NordDRG Forum).

The Centre is responsible for the yearly deliveries for maintaining, updating and developing of the NordDRG definitions and the electronic manual. This includes testing of new rules and maintenance and development of the NDMS software (NordDRG Maintenance System).

The Centre is responsible for documentation and distribution of the information on changes to the NordDRG definitions and maintenance of the NordDRG manual system. The Centre also provides a NordDRG web information service and supports national NordDRG work.

The Centre co-ordinates and co-operates in analyses and statistical publications about NordDRG on behalf of the Nordic countries and performs evaluation, testing and certification of groupers to ensure compatibility with the NordDRG definitions, according to a specified protocol.it also ooperates with the main NordDRG software provider(s) in delivering the common NordDRG version as well as national versions based on national codes, to the Nordic countries, as appropriate.