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P Matthews

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Case management information systems: how to put the pieces together now and beyond year 2000.

Healthcare organizations must establish the goals and objectives of their case management processes before functional and system requirements can be defined. A gap analysis will identify existing systems that can be used to support case management as well as areas in need of systems support. The gap analysis will also identify short-term tactical projects and long-term strategic initiatives supporting the automation of case management. The projects resulting from the gap analysis must be incorporated into the organization's business and information systems plan and budget to ensure appropriate funding and prioritization.

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Nursing case management in the millennium. Two perspectives.

To prepare case managers for the next millennium, Russell Coile, a noted healthcare futurist, and Pamela Matthews, a respected clinician and consultant, participate in a dialogue. Coile takes a broad view of millennial issues, while Matthews responds to those issues with her clinician's perspective. Case management will face challenges and opportunities as a result of internal and external pressures to the healthcare community. These pressures, both near- and far-term, will simultaneously strengthen and tax the case manager's responsibilities. Developments in technology and demands for more and better access to high-quality patient information will require nursing case managers to expand their knowledge of, and influence over, the application of technology and information systems. Case managers will need to participate in advocating, planning, and deploying these systems. Technological challenges will not change case managers' fundamental roles within an organization, but they will strengthen and support those roles by harnessing the information necessary to allow more efficient outcomes, create standards of care, and increase patient satisfaction.

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Conflicts of conscience. Hospice and assisted suicide.

Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with dying patients' legal right to request lethal prescriptions.

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