TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Healthcare Information Technology
A1  - Burns, Lawton Robert
PY  - 2021
T2  - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers
AB  - The  healthcare  ecosystem  is  “awash  in  data.”  It  is  one  of  the  most  data-intensive  sectors  in  the  US  economy,  with  more  information  generated  with  each  patient  encounter.  Such  encounters  mushroomed  following  enactment  of  Medicare  and  Medicaid  in  1965,  spurring  payer  and  provider  efforts  to  get  their  arms  around  the  costs  and  utilization  patterns  of  these  patient  populations.  Hospitals  and  physician  offices  adopted  desktop  computers  and  information  software  to  bill  insurers.  Hospitals  also  began  to  apply  healthcare  information  technology  (HCIT)  to  specialized  areas  like  pharmacy,  radiology,  and  clinical  laboratories  to  gather  and  analyze  clinical  information.  The  enactment  of  the  Inpatient  Prospective  Payment  System  (IPPS)  in  1983  increased  the  need  for  HCIT  to  manage  costs  under  budgeted  payments.  During  the  1990s,  changes  in  physician  payment  under  Medicare  and  pressures  from  managed  care  payers  likewise  required  physician  practices  to  more  widely  implement  software  systems  to  manage  their  practice  finances.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180254704
ER  -