Building a framework to transform health care. (Health Care Meets E-commerce).: An article from: Physician Executive

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From the author: Advances in information technology are helping clinicians to realize the promise of evidence-based medicine, which includes benchmarking, outcomes monitoring, predictive modeling, and clinical pathways. By integrating individual clinical expertise and the best available research, physicians can apply the disciplines and techniques of clinical research to their practice of medicine, one patient at a time. Evidence-based medicine also allows organizations to move forward with continuous clinical quality improvement programs. Standards, open systems, data warehouses, and evidence-based medicine help a health care delivery system obtain the technical infrastructure, decision-making processes, analytical skills, clinical databases, predictive models, and clinical pathways. With this information technology (1) physicians can practice evidence-based medicine and (2) the delivery system can pro file clinicians' practice habits for managed care contracting and continuous clinical quality improvement.

Citation Details
Title: Building a framework to transform health care. (Health Care Meets E-commerce).
Author: Marshall de Graffenried Ruffin
Publication:Physician Executive (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: American College of Physician Executives
Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Page: 46(5)

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