



By Oracle | Feb 22, 2010
Driving Information Technology (IT) in the healthcare setting has been a priority for many large healthcare organizations, partly due to IT’s capability as a powerful transformational tool for not only monitoring patient safety and satisfaction in the care delivery settings, but also in helping organizations rapidly achieve Operational Efficiency. For a number of organizations, IT investments have been primarily focused on infrastructure development such as implementing transactional systems, either for back office operations including finance and billing, or on direct patient care in areas where unit automation can drive change such as Laboratory Information Management Systems or Electronic Medical Records Systems.
True Information systems leadership must commit extensive resources to effectively coordinate the different data sources as well as address the timing of the data transfer between the sources. These incremental investments in integration are starting to bear fruit, but are still very difficult for organizations to have visibility into information across the entire organization.
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