Cornerstones of Cost Accounting 1st Edition by Don Hansen,Maryanne Mowen

Exercise 6

A number of companies are involved in creating Internet solutions to medical recordkeeping. Given that clinics and doctors' offices use a job-order costing system, discuss how software may improve productivity and efficiency. What problems remain to be solved? Use the Athena Health ( http://www.athenahealth.com ) and VisionaryMed ( http://visionarymed.com/emr/?src=gEMR gclid=CLXZ0JmfjZwCFSQMDQodX3BhZA ) websites as well as the following article (archived in your library): George Anders, "Healtheon Struggles in Efforts to Remedy Doctors' Paper Plague," The Wall Street Journal (October 2, 1998): A1 and A6.