title: Managing managed care.
abstract: Managed care trends--such as acquisitions of local physician practices, mergers among payor and provider organizations and changes to the current role of managing care--means a difference in the way information systems must operate.
authors.forename: E X
authors.initials: EX
authors.lastname: DeJesus
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D008331:Management Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D008910:Minnesota; D009657:North Carolina; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States