TY - JOUR T1 - Integrated patient-centered computing: operations optimization for the 21st century. A1 - Korpman,R A, PY - 1994/4/8/pubmed PY - 1994/4/8/medline PY - 1994/4/8/entrez SP - 11 EP - 23 JF - Topics in health information management JO - Top Health Inf Manage VL - 14 IS - 4 N2 - Over the last few years, health care providers have increasingly recognized that health care is an information business. In fact, the restructuring now being contemplated by many in the context of reform cannot be done without proper information management support. The unfortunate concentration of the health care industry over the last 20 years on administrative and financial data capture has obscured the fact that the important focus should be on patient care and health care operations information. Information on patient care has, unfortunately, largely been relegated to the paper chart and other ad hoc pieces of paper. New systems should focus on health care operations optimization, with specific design features to address failings in the paper system. To be successful, such systems must be integrated and patient centered. This is especially clear in the new enterprise-based world of health care delivery, where patients are the only common factor among venues. Health record professionals, the primary caretakers of patient care information, should be deeply involved in helping institutions move to this new world. SN - 1065-0989 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/10134756/Integrated_patient_centered_computing:_operations_optimization_for_the_21st_century_ L2 - http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=linkout&SEARCH=10134756.ui DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -