Health Care

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This paper examines how the health care and insurance industries have adopted relational database and other related applications software technology to manage physician information. The paper contends that the United States health care system is a compilation of insurance companies, health plans, physicians, hospitals, clinics, consumers, governmental agencies, and public health programs. These organizations strive to become more efficient and, therefore, cost effective. The paper claims that the entire health care system has begun to adopt information technology as an answer for cutting back and stopping the financial bleeding.

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"The healthcare system should be efficient because of the nature of contract medicine. Consider that today's healthcare system has become a contract driven process. For example, when a private company hires a new employee, that employee then becomes eligible for healthcare coverage through the Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) contracted with the employer. The employee is required to choose a physician who will then act on behalf of the employee and the HMO in the role of a Primary Care Physician. That HMO has already established a contract with that doctor as well as hundreds or even thousands of other doctors, hospitals, clinics and other various healthcare related organizations such as a local gym or a physical therapist's office. These contracted agreements entail a great deal of information that is in constant flux. Therefore, the process of managing these contracts comes down to managing the abundance of information for each of these entities. This control has become possible through the use of modern database technology."

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