title: Telecommunication. Strategy: communication links with physicians.
abstract: Telecommunications vendors en masse are targeting health care as a market segment with vast, untapped potential. But hospitals are still having trouble integrating computer systems within their own walls. Are they ready to face the telecommunications challenge: utilizing long-distance telecommunication networks that would shuttle health care information around the country as efficiently as systems already at work in the finance industry? Ready or not, experts say the day must come.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Souhrada
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000639:trends*; D003199:Computer Systems / Q000639:trends*; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D007297:Inpatients; D009726:Nurses; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D010820:Physicians; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States