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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of the Integrating Healthcare Enterprises initiative. Logistical issues and the complexity of organizational systems integration are focused upon. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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adoption of new models to increase the efficiency of processes, to maximize the revenue gained from every client contact, and so on. However, in the United States, this trend has
had some interesting variations when applied to the health care industry. This is because the United States is fairly unique in the world in regards to having a health care
system centered in capitalist ideology, wherein "administrators" and "managers" must make decisions about health care not simply on the basis of providing needed care to the sick, but also on
the basis of maximizing profits and beating the competition. Of course, in order to be competitive, health care organizations also have to increase the quality of their care. For these
reasons, the health care organization in the United States faces a unique challenge: how to both raise quality of care while reducing costs. The answer, of course, is to focus
on organizational efficiency, but because of the unique nature of health care delivery, and the complexity of the "product" being sold, traditional models for competitive efficiency will not suffice. To
address this need, health care professionals have worked to develop a solution that focuses on the integration of information systems to meet all the competitive needs of health care organizations
in a capitalistic environment: the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise initiative. This paper provides a detailed overview of this initiative and the challenges it is likely to face. To begin with, it
is important to understand exactly the nature of the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise initiative. While the initiative is naturally quite complex, as information system integration is a staggeringly complex task for
even the smallest regular organization, it can be broadly broken down into three basic categories. Firstly patient efficiency and quality of care can both be directly addressed through addressing the
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