CMH, like all hospitals, has acquired numerous software applications from a variety of vendors. The industry has a notorious lack of EDI standards. The result is a series of legacy applications that require specialized solutions to communicate with each other or, even worse, cannot communicate.
Clinicals: Hospital census, patient demographics, inpatient medication list and numerous other data are managed in HBOC systems. HBO and Company was acquired by McKesson Corp (NYSE: MCK) in 1998.