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Article: Upfront costs can yield savings later.(Making the pieces fit)(health care providers' information systems)(Cover Story)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- May 11, 1998
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Anderson (S.C.) Area Medical Center joined the computer revolution early, investing in color-screen personal Computer workstations back in 1984 and supporting the march to ever more complex clusters of PCs since then.
But the latest venture into high-speed, wide-area networks ended the streak of self-sufficiency, says Darrell Hickman, the system's chief information officer.
"The network technology was very much a big hit for us," Hickman says. "The level of complexity was very much higher than we were used to."
Four network engineers and three PC support staffers had held down the fort, with outside help at times to fill occasional gaps in ...