Information systems in the perioperative environment

For many years, the development and use of commercial information systems (IS) in medical environments have focused upon meeting the financial and administrative needs of medical care. Clinical information systems developed along a relatively separate path, primarily in academic and medical center environments. Today, trends resident throughout the United States are forcing the clinical, financial, and administrative sides of medicine to come together. These coalescing forces are driving the development of a new generation of information systems, with direct use and application for clinical practitioners.