title: Manufacturing healthcare. Columbia/HCA strives toward common systems.
abstract: Of any one organization in the healthcare industry, Columbia HCA/Healthcare Corp. has become a symbol for the mass-market commercialization of healthcare. Since its humble beginnings in 1987 as a two-hospital organization in El Paso, Texas, the cunning of its founder and CEO Richard Scott had catapulted the hospital chain start-up, through an aggressive strategy of mergers and acquisitions, to its current position as the nation's largest provider of healthcare services.
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authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D016134:Organizational Policy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States