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Article: Information technology needs for integrated delivery systems.
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Healthcare Financial Management Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Financial managers of integrated delivery systems are becoming increasingly aware of the need to upgrade and improve their information technology strategies. Such improvements include moving toward a core-process focus that will enhance a system's ability to secure covered lives, manage risk and health status, and deliver high-quality care.
As healthcare organizations continue to form integrated delivery systems, system control is becoming an increasingly complex issue that encompasses both financial management and healthcare delivery. Information technology provides the only basis for controlling the system, and the information technology needs of an integrated ...