Kay Vining
Rasmussen College
Author’s Note:
This essay is being prepared on December 1, 2014 for Essentials of Health Information Management course.
EXTERNAL STANDARDS, REGULATIONS, & INITIATIVES
The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics, increased customer outlook, increased competition, and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for management in information technology are increasing as healthcare organizations feature to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access to care. Healthcare organizations have developed better and more complex. …show more content…
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