title: Architecture: client/server moves into managed healthcare.
abstract: The healthcare industry is in transition from indemnity-based products to managed care during a period marked by consolidation, competitiveness and increasingly demanding consumers. This powerful combination of industry change and customer interest requires more efficient operations and flexible information systems. Host-based managed care systems are running into limitations meeting business needs, creating a demand for client/server architectures.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Worthington
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008331:Management Information Systems / Q000191:economics; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface