Historical Evolution of Preventive Medical Informatics in the USA
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Methods of Information in Medicine
- Vol. 39 (03) , 204-207
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634344
Abstract
A major reorganization of healthcare services is occurring in the United States. It has evolved from the solo- and group-practice models of the 1940s with fee-for-service and insurer-indemnification financing that used paper-based information systems to support preventive medical services. In the 1990s there emerged nation-wide, managed-care plans employing enhanced computer-based information systems with online preventive medical practice guidelines and Internet-supported home-care telemedicine. It is helpful to review how this major reengineering of medicine has come about.Keywords
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