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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:1522-1525
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Optimizing cardiothoracic surgery information for a managed care environment

MD Timothy A. Denton*, MD Jack M. Matloff

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

* Address reprint requests to Dr Denton, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Rm 6215, Los Angeles, CA 90048.


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The rapid change occurring in American healthcare is a direct response to rising costs. Managed care is the fastest growing model that attempts to control escalating costs through limitations in patient choice, the active use of guidelines, and placing providers at risk. Managed care is an information intensive system, and those providers who use information effectively will be at an advantage in the competitive healthcare marketplace. There are five classes of information that providers must collect to be competitive in a managed care environment: patient satisfaction, medical outcomes, continuous quality improvement, quality of the decision, and financial data. Each of these should be actively used in marketing, assuring the quality of patient care, and maintaining financial stability. Although changes in our healthcare system are occurring rapidly, we need to respond to the marketplace to maintain our viability, but as physicians, we have the singular obligation to maintain the supremacy of the individual patient and the physician-patient relationship.


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Presented at Preparing Your Practice for Change: Thoracic Surgery Into the Next Decade, Atlanta, GA, Sep 24–25, 1994.


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