Dear Keti,

Thank you for you email.

I think the best is to get back to him and agree on further steps. He gave you "thumbs up" for further negotiations which shows NCC's readiness to proceed.

In my opinion you should clarify with Martti the following issues:

-The contract for using the NordDRG Georgian version

-The license/maintenance fee

-The timetable for providing Georgian national ICD10 and NCSP versions to NCC

-The timetable for providing the definition tables by NCC for Georgia based on your national primary classifications and Common NordDRG logic.

Once the definition tables are produced, it only comes to the grouper delivery. As Martti indicated, you can find the certified grouper producers in the webpage of NCC. The open source groupers are not yet available.

So I encourage you to reply him and clarify how is the best to proceed.

If there is anything I can help you with, please let me know.

Thanks,

Kristiina

From: Ketevan Goginashvili
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:53 PM
To: 'sbelkania@moh.gov.ge'; Kristiina Kahur; 'Triin Habicht (triinhab@gmail.com)'
Cc: mdarakhvelidze@moh.gov.ge
Subject: FW: From the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Dear Kristiina, Dear Triiin,

Could you advise what to do after Martii’s response?

Thank you in advance,

With best regards,

Keti

Ketevan Goginashvili, MPH

Head of Health Policy Division

Health Care Department

Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs

144 Tsereteli Ave

Tbilisi 0119, Georgia

Tel: +995 32 251 00 38 ext 1108

Mob: 995 577717984

From: Martti Virtanen [mailto:martti.virtanen@nordcase.org]
Sent: 31 January, 2018 16:32
To: Ketevan Goginashvili
Cc: 'Kahur Kristiina'; norddrgboard@nordcase.org; maisa.lukander@nordcase.org
Subject: VS: From the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Dear Ketevan

Sorry for not being able to answer you earlier.

Officially the board of the Nordic Casemix Centre will decide about the usage of the Nordic DRG grouper. However, the board has previously been positive for NordDRG usage ‘as is’ i.e. without any specific changes for a new country. Since you are using ICD-10 and NCSP this should be possible without any changes to your hospital information system. We would deliver the definition tables in a format that can be used by the grouper program. You could for example use the same basic grouping logic (table) that Latvia is currently using. Your ICD- and NCSP-tables would have to bee mapped to our ICD+ and NCSP+ tables. If you have not modified the original tables this is a straight forward process.

Currently we do not deliver the groupers. On our webpage (http://www.nordcase.org) you can find currently certified producers of grouper. Norwegian Board of health has produced a new grouper that may be available as open source product in the future. Also a new maintenance tool for NordDRG is currently developed as open source. Currently it is not ready.

I can not promise any support from the Nordic Casemix Centre for the use of NordDRG. Maybe persons from our expert group might be available as consultants. Obviously Kristiina Kahur could be a suitable person if she has time.

Greetings

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Martti Virtanen

CEO, Nordic Casemix Centre

Paciuksenkatu 19

00270 Helsinki

Finland

tel. +3585066728

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Lähettäjä: Ketevan Goginashvili [mailto:kgoginashvili@moh.gov.ge]
Lähetetty: maanantai 29. tammikuuta 2018 18.07
Vastaanottaja: martti.virtanen@nordcase.org; tiina.pasanen@nordcase.org; maisa.lukander@nordcase.org
Kopio: Zaza Sopromadze <zsopromadze@moh.gov.ge>
Aihe: From the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

Dear Mr. Vitranen,

I would like to kindly address you from the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia with request to initiate cooperation with Nordic Casemix Center to obtain "Certificate of Acceptance" for NordDRG grouper software.

Let me take this opportunity and provide you with a brief overview of Georgian health care system. Since 2013, the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia (MoLHSA) introduced several important reforms, including Universal Health Care (UHC) Program, which aims to improve access to health care services and strengthen financial protection. The Government of Georgia continues to retain Universal Health Care system and is committed to further improve cost effectiveness and transparency of UHC program with the support of World Health Organization through the implementation of reimbursement methods of health service providers.

It is worth mentioning that from 2010 health providers uses ICD10 and NCSP classifications and electronic system for claim reimbursement, which is a solid base for the implementation of NordDRG.

Would you be so kind to inform us what necessary procedures should be undertaken by Georgian side to get “Certificate of Acceptance” for use of NordDRG Grouper and Software.

Thank you in advance for consideration and support.

Sincerely,