Toward automated health services

The fragmented and disorganized nature of health care programs and services acts to impede the acceptance of the technological developments and modern business practices needed to provide comprehensive health services of high quality for every person. A national system in the U.S. to provide for a coherent and comprehensive program of medical research, development, and health care services is described as operated under the structure of a Health Maintenance Corporation. Financial support for technological developments would be provided by a National Health Insurance program and health services would be provided by a national network of group practice prepaid health care plans. The administrative, organizational, and operational arrangements of other public and private services are related to the needs of a modern health care system to suggest how to adopt and exploit technologies from those sectors.