title: A computer-assisted health care cost management system.
abstract: To our knowledge, First Chicago has developed and implemented the first operational integrated health data computer system that includes the traditional occupational medicine data base together with medical claims and health risk appraisal data. OMNIS has combined medical claims, personnel, disability, employee assistance program, wellness program participation, administrative functions, laboratory, periodic health evaluation data, and health risk appraisal data in a single system. OMNIS provides data that are being used to more accurately predict health care and disability costs and design intervention strategies. Clearly, the integrated health data computer system provides information to manage increasingly complex issues of health care quality and cost. For companies concerned about the quality as well as the cost of health care, an integrated health data computer system (OMNIS) may be a valuable tool to objectively assess quality of care. For example, a company could evaluate how effectively various providers (eg, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, indemnity plan) control medical conditions such as hypertension. Integrated health data management systems have the potential to assist in the selection of the highest quality and most cost-effective health care plans.
authors.affiliation: First National Bank of Chicago, IL 60670-0006.
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Burton
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hoy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: D002641:Chicago; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review / Q000191:economics; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration