HSA 4191 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Centralized Database, Conversion Of Units, Teijin
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Ids must consider the need for integration of information systems across institutions as well as within individual organizational units. Such integration is particularly critical in vertically integrated organizations where patients may progress and seek treatment at various organizational units such as clinics, surgical centers, acute care hospitals, substance abuse centers and skilled nursing facilities. Information systems must be patient centered to aggregate data from the various medical care units and track patients throughout the health care delivery organization. Corporate system management must recognize that different types of facilities have their own distinct information requirements. Corporate policy must provide mechanisms for specialized information systems to meet the needs of individuals units. Information systems for an ids must be able to provide comparative financial data for management to efficiently allocate resources to individual units: this capability is critical when healthcare costs are paid on a capitation bases.
