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Computer Systems/trends , Management Information Systems/trends , Medical Informatics Applications , Technology/trends , Computer Communication Networks/trends , Computer Security/trends , Databases, Factual/trends , Health Care Sector/trends , Internet/trends , Software/trends , Systems Integration , Telemedicine/instrumentation , Telemedicine/trends , United States , User-Computer Interface , VoiceABSTRACT
As the structure of healthcare delivery systems changes, an increasing number of healthcare executives are rethinking their organizations' approaches to the delivery of care. At the same time, many executives are re-engineering their organizations' information systems to provide the infrastructure necessary to support changing requirements. Healthcare executives can take a number of steps to ensure that their organizations' information systems help reduce costs and improve quality of patient care.
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Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration , Information Systems/standards , Community Health Planning , Cost Control , Planning Techniques , Quality Assurance, Health Care , Systems Analysis , United StatesABSTRACT
In today's rapidly changing healthcare environment, managers have begun efforts to reengineer outdated and inefficient work flow practices--something that other industries have already been doing for years. However, for several key reasons, successful reengineering efforts in healthcare are more difficult than in other industries. Nevertheless, these difficulties can be overcome if the right approach is used. If done correctly, healthcare reengineering can have big payoffs. This article recommends a phased-in approach by reengineering in six steps.
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Hospital Restructuring/organization & administration , Organizational Innovation , Process Assessment, Health Care , Efficiency, Organizational , Hospital Information Systems , Humans , Planning Techniques , Psychology, Industrial , Task Performance and Analysis , United StatesABSTRACT
Even without passage of Federal healthcare reform legislation, the healthcare market is responding to cost-control pressures by becoming more integrated and business-driven. As mergers and collaborations increase, automated system infrastructures must be developed to support the information needs of newly formed integrated healthcare delivery systems. Strategic plans must include provisions for creating new information systems or expanding existing systems so they can support seamless integration and access to patient data among varying providers.
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Community Networks/statistics & numerical data , Computer Communication Networks/statistics & numerical data , Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration , Hospital Information Systems/statistics & numerical data , Community Networks/trends , Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/statistics & numerical data , Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/trends , Health Care Coalitions/statistics & numerical data , Hospital Information Systems/trends , Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures/statistics & numerical data , Organizational Affiliation/statistics & numerical data , United StatesABSTRACT
Hospitals are not replacing their patient accounting systems in the volume they once did during 1987 and 1988, and the greatest decline in patient accounting software purchases has occurred among large hospitals, according to analysts at Sheldon Dorenfest & Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm. Despite the maturity of the patient accounting software marketplace, those software vendors who can develop products that recognize the changing hospital environment will emerge over the next five years.
