Will sophisticated MIS lead to increased legislation of medicine?
If the healthcare industry automates clinical practices and links them along critical care pathways, will it be providing Federal regulators with data they may use to legislate how hospital care should be delivered? This article examines the implications of expanded use of increasingly sophisticated information systems in health care.
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