“As a health care provider, you face challenges similar to those in industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, retail and others — “stovepiped,” non-integrated systems that store only part of the information your organization creates. Virtually all functional areas of a hospital or clinic may have their own systems, each organized around the function they support — such as admissions, surgery, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, HR, anesthesiology, and others — rather than around the patient they serve.”
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Libby Bucsi, Advance, 12 August 2009
