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Currently, over 90 percent of the available software products in healthcare revolve around billing systems ("Health for profit," 1994, p. 45). However, the fundamental needs of the emerging networks is to automate and share as much clinical information as possible. Billing systems will become increasing irrelevant as more and more services are pre-paid. Capitation is forcing hospitals and physicians to re-engineer the enormous inefficiencies in the present delivery system. A delivery system that is ten years behind in leveraging information technology to lower costs and increase the productivity of it's workers. These inefficiencies are not easily reversed as evidenced by staff model HMO's efforts over the last 10 years.

The computerized patient record captured and shared at the point of care has been a goal of almost all major staff model HMO's for the last 10 years. However, after millions of dollars invested in numerous projects, the computerized patient record currently eludes virtually all of them.

The key issue currently blocking the successful wide-scale implementation of the computerized patient record is the automation of medical notes. This

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evious experience and training as already exists ("Health for profit," 1994, p. 48). In conclusion, we must spend about three-fourths of the money on actually hardware, and one-fourth on implementation and training. 9. Discuss how you would plan, staff, and control OA at Good Samaritan Hospital? The hospital's board of trustees represents the public's interest and bears legal and moral responsibility for all activities that occur within the institution. The trustees set hospital policy and see to the provision and safeguarding of hospital assets. The administrator, the chief of the medical staff, and the chiefs of the various medical services are directly responsible to the trustees who also approve the medical-staff bylaws, the rules that govern the behavior of staff physicians. The medical staff is usually subdivided into inpatient departments such as medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, and psychiatry. Good Samaritan must add another branch for office and data management: an MIS manager. Each department has a chief of service, and all medical services are overseen by a chief of staff, who may be appointed by the trustees or elected by the medical staff. Teaching hospitals maintain a paid staff of physicians,
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