The networked health enterprise: a vision for 2008.
Informatics and information technology hold the promise of a consumer-centered health enterprise--one that provides quality care at a cost society is willing to pay; one where need-based, adaptive, competency-based learning results in cost-effectiveness of health education; one where team-based health and learning on demand, coupled with monitoring of process outcomes and network access to expertise, guarantee quality. The barriers to this promise are the professional guilds, the cross-subsidies that support [...]
Author(s): Stead, W W
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050412