INTEGRATED AMBULATORY CARE RESOURCE SCHEDULING IN ONCOLOGY

In a modern managed-care environment, the scheduling of ambulatory car e activities must be viewed as a series of closely related activities rather than a group of unique and independent events. These activities must be sequenced in a logical manner, and linked with a variety of i nformation on other clinical, operational, and administrative activiti es. This article focuses on such an integrated scheduling system which supports the ambulatory care services at the Johns Hopkins Oncology C enter.