title: Integrating information for community-based health care.
abstract: Healthcare providers are increasingly faced with the need to develop comprehensive, clinically-oriented, community-focused information systems in order to remain financially viable and meet the information demands of healthcare consumers. Some providers interface and integrate their disparate information systems on their own. Others form integrated delivery systems that take advantage of economies of scale from an enterprise approach to information technology management. Still others form health information networks that allow them to pool information technology resources while pursuing independent business goals.
authors.affiliation: First Consulting Group, Filer, ID, USA.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Garets
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007061:Idaho; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009505:Nevada; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States