HEALTH-CARE ECONOMICS - A WHOLE NEW PICTURE

Throughout the United States, health care institutions are being confronted with a technology that will fundamentally change the way they do business: electronic image management, or EIM. At institutions such as the University of Michigan Medical Center, for instance, EIM is replacing expensive films and archives with on-line images. The advantage to patients: faster, more accessible diagnostic services. The risk to institutions: those that fail to go on line may soon be out of the picture.