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The Opportunity

The opportunity that lies in Managed Care is found in the tension that is created between the palpable need to reduce cost and facilitating the right care at the right time and place.

"Superior doctors prevent disease, mediocre doctors treat disease before it is evident, and inferior doctors treat full-blown disease"
Huang Dee, in Nai Chain; 1st Chinese medical text, 2600 BCE

A mini recap of managed care's history:
Patients can receive the right care at the right time and place. Avoiding hospitalization for CHF is, perhaps, the most salient example of a managed care win-win. The key to making it all happen lies in Medical Informatics, not in cost-shifting and/or cost-sharing.

Medical Informatics has been defined as "the rapidly developing scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making."
Shortliffe et al. Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Healthcare. Addison Wesley, 1990

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