title: Care maps, utilization, and outcomes: a viable solution.
abstract: Clearly, the changing healthcare environment and specific forces confronting cancer therapy today are necessitating collection and analysis of utilization, cost, and outcomes information. Manual tracking of information or tracking through multiple, disparate computer systems are cost--prohibitive alternatives to enabling cancer centers to efficiently and effectively manage these sophisticated information needs. However, the implementation of a cancer-therapy management system, which includes a disease-based process model of treatment and facilitates data-collection at the point of care, is now a strategic imperative for healthcare organizations.
authors.affiliation: IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hoey
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soehl
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review