Title :
Health care informatics
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage., Nebraska Univ., Lincoln, NE, USA
fDate :
3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The health care industry is currently experiencing a fundamental change. Health care organizations are reorganizing their processes to reduce costs, be more competitive, and provide better and more personalized customer care. This new business strategy requires health care organizations to implement new technologies, such as Internet applications, enterprise systems, and mobile technologies in order to achieve their desired business changes. This article offers a conceptual model for implementing new information systems, integrating internal data, and linking suppliers and patients.
Keywords :
Internet; health care; management of change; medical information systems; mobile computing; technology transfer; telemedicine; Internet applications; business changes; business strategy; enterprise systems; health care informatics; information systems; internal data integration; mobile technologies; patient-supplier linking; personalized customer care; Biomedical informatics; Communication industry; Costs; Industrial relations; Information systems; Internet; Management information systems; Medical services; Pharmaceutical technology; Supply chains; Computer Communication Networks; Consumer Satisfaction; Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Medical Informatics;
Journal_Title :
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TITB.2002.805449