Ambulatory systems for managed care.

Providence Health System is successfully making the transition from an acute care-based holding company of health care business to a diversified, operating, managed care company with the mission of improving the health status of the populations it serves, and being at financial risk for doing so. Information systems have been a leading change agent in this transition, not only from the standpoint of consolidating and standardizing practices within Providence Health System, but also by facilitating the exchange and integration of information within the health care community. ProvNet has made available the tools to accomplish this information integration in the physician's office and to extend it not only to Providence, but to other health systems as well.