RESUMEN
Healthcare providers, payors and patients alike are somewhat dubious about using the Web to administer transactions. Everyone agrees that it would save time and money. But the real-time exchange of funds inherent to e-business would require payors and patients to settle up front. And technology can make employees uncomfortable, not to mention obsolete.
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Eficiencia Organizacional , Revisión de Utilización de Seguros/organización & administración , Internet , Cultura Organizacional , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Managed care trends--such as acquisitions of local physician practices, mergers among payor and provider organizations and changes to the current role of managing care--means a difference in the way information systems must operate.
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Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/organización & administración , Sistemas de Información Administrativa/tendencias , Contabilidad de Pagos y Cobros , Instituciones Asociadas de Salud/tendencias , Humanos , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/tendencias , Minnesota , North Carolina , Estudios de Casos Organizacionales , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The focus of healthcare IT has tended to be on the back end: billing, financial systems and administration. This is now changing as healthcare facilities realize that patients are customers, and more emphasis must be placed on that first patient contact: scheduling.
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Citas y Horarios , Sistemas de Información Administrativa , Integración de Sistemas , Recursos en Salud , Seguro de Salud , Visita a Consultorio Médico , Pacientes , Sistemas de Información para Admisión y Escalafón de Personal , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
While the technology side of PACS is strong, it's the way you implement your PACS--and especially the way you integrate your PACS with your hospital and radiology information system--that makes all the difference.