Managed care's EDI challenge.
Because managed care plans have to compare themselves with others in price and quality, they are struggling with the issue of how to capture relevant data. Health maintenance organizations and others are attempting to build a consensus on ways to define, standardize and collect information on patient encounters before the federal government imposes mandates. "There's a revolution in managed care data collection," one HMO executive says.
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