The need to integrate clinical and financial information.
To succeed under managed care, healthcare organizations must integrate clinical and financial information. This integration can help minimize financial risk by improving the ratio of costs to clinical outcomes. This clinical-financial integration will require healthcare organizations to improve outcomes measurement and cost accounting systems and use tools such as computer-based patient records to identify more clearly the interventions that produce excellent outcomes at minimal cost.
Keegan
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HBO & Company, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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