Clinical pathways set to experience 'technological rebirth'.
The state of the art in case management care plans is automation. Larger hospital systems are at the beginning of a technological rebirth, and that includes acute care clinical pathways, according to case managers at New York University Medical Center in New York City and Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Despite some minor glitches, and the perennial issue of getting physician support for pathways, the systems are up and running. Users are hopeful that pathway technology will continue to improve and someday be linked electronically to outcomes software.
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