devry hsm310 week 4 discussion dq 1 & dq 2 latest 2016 may

dq 1

Computers have changed just about everything in the way that we provide, document, and manage healthcare in America. Discuss some of the primary uses of information technology in healthcare organizations today. Provide specific examples of such applications. How do you see information technology in healthcare evolving over the decade ahead?

dq 2

Managed care has greatly impacted healthcare delivery in America, and your lecture for this week covers this fact quite well. Managed care remains a subject of great debate in our nation, with some patients being quite satisfied with their HMO or PPO plans and others very disappointed. Doctors, in general, have been very frustrated with the intrusion of managed care in the historically sacred physician-patient relationship. What really is managed care? And how does it work?