July's HotList features financial decision-support products. All data have been provided by individual vendors who responded to our survey questions. Computers in Healthcare has made an effort to contact all vendors within this market. See the 1993 Computers in Healthcare Market Directory for complete listings.
Community Health Management Information Systems could be a blessing or a curse, depending on your point of view. But make no mistake, these reform-mandated systems are coming. Will they signal an end to personal privacy as "Big Brother" peeks into everyone's health background, or a new era in information-rich medical care?
Computers in Healthcare offers a special supplement to the 1993 Market Directory, published in March. This addendum can be pulled out and placed in your regular Computers in Healthcare Market Directory.
Fast, efficient access to patient information is now an essential management tool. Not only does it facilitate a streamlined approach to the continuum of care, but it also helps ensure the kind of quality that consumers are clamoring for.
Sophisticated data management--the ability to share information across geographical and technical boundaries via heterogeneous networks with seamless interoperability--was the stuff of science fiction just a few years ago. It is now a reality with M. Thomas Salander, vice chair of the M Technology Association and chairman of the MUMPS Development Committee, sets the scene and shows the way.
Healthcare and high-tech writer Rob Hard scoured the exhibit hall at the huge Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) annual conference. He discovered that healthcare professionals are seeking ways to redesign workflow and incorporate the technology into their business plans.
The results of two recent surveys show that enthusiasm and support for reengineering information systems is slow to catch on among information professionals and top healthcare management. Caution--and even outright pessimism--remain over the speed with which a truly computer-based patient record will be implemented. Interest in open-systems solutions, however, is up sharply.
The notion of coordinating a patient's care requirements over time and over different agencies is not new. The technological potential and benefits of automating case management, however, are just now beginning to show, particularly in managing the care of AIDS patients with long-term needs.
Administering a managed-care pharmacy means data, data and more data. Drug interactions, duplicate therapy and early refills need to be pinpointed. M Technology fills that prescription with ease.
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