Reengineering health information management: the first steps.
This is a partial view of how implementing new computer technology will put power into the hands of healthcare providers in the future. The article touches briefly on three concepts that will help health information management professionals restructure the data collection process. The restructuring process should be based on minimizing a task-orientation and emphasizing an outcome-oriented approach., In the course of making this change, old methods will have to be discarded and totally new systems implemented. This will make some people happy and will distress others, but it really needs to be done and the new technology is here to help us do it. 'It is time to stop paving cow paths ...' and start building new super highways from scratch. We can do this by computerizing, but we must base the design of these new health information management programs (both clinical and administrative) on guidelines like the ones explained here.