NETWORKING and TELECOMMUNICATION

Networking and Telecommunication Related to Health Services

Networking and Telecommunication Related to Health Services

Networking in Health Service

In 1995, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) initiated a major restructuring for the purpose of ensuring better quality, increasing efficiencies, and improving access to services needed by defined populations of veterans. The VISN strategy paralleled a broader approach to restructuring in the 1990s involving many hospitals across the country and which produced a large number of local and regional clusters of hospital-based provider systems. Despite many similarities, however, these private systems, coined integrated delivery networks (IDNs) by the hospital professional associations at the beginning ...