Survey: More work needed to integrate care management, IT

September 2, 2010, 2:16 am by Healthcare IT News

New research concludes that the pace of automating and integrating care management workflows into health IT systems, remains slow.   The findings come out of "The 2010 Health Information Technology Survey: How Technology Is Changing the Practice of Case Management" report, conducted by TCS Healthcare Technologies (TCS) in conjunction with the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP).

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