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E L Veiel

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Digital health care: where health care, information technology, and the Internet converge.

The digital health care industry applies information technologies to facilitate communications, commerce, transactions, business problem solving, and enhanced decision making for one or more groups that supply, consume, or finance health care services and products. The variation among companies is significant, but each one attempts to leverage information technology to drive sustainable evolutionary change. In an overview of the industry, a framework is provided to understand the maze of business plans.

Computer Security↗

Medicare Transaction System: platform for change.

This article provides an overview of the Medicare Transaction System (MTS), a Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)-wide initiative to be implemented starting in 1997 which will develop a national, standard, integrated, government-owned, contractor-operated Medicare claims processing system that will meet the challenges confronting Medicare over the next 2 decades. The authors discuss MTS goals and objectives, major features, how it will work, standardization efforts being undertaken in support of the initiative, contracting efforts involved, and project status.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗