title: Internet-enabled solutions for health care business problems.
abstract: Many health care delivery organizations have built, installed, or made use of Nets. As single entities merge with others, and independent institutions become part of much larger delivery networks, the need for collaboration is critical. With the formation of such partnerships, existing platforms will become increasingly available from which it will be possible to build disparate technologies that must somehow be part of a single working "system." Nets can enable this leveraging, allowing access from multiple technological platforms. The collaboration, distribution, application integration, and messaging possibilities with the Nets are unprecedented. We believe that meeting a health care delivery organization's needs without these benefits will soon be unthinkable. While Nets are not the answer to the challenges facing health care delivery today, they certainly are a large contributor to the solution.
authors.affiliation: First Consulting Group, Dallas, TX, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geisler
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016494:Computer Security; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006298:Health Services Administration; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface