Murray J R
The Gulliver Group, Huntington Beach, CA.
Healthc Inform. 1994 Feb;11(2):99-112.
Remember the story of the three blind men, each confronted by a different part of an elephant? Asked to describe the object in front of them, they each described the part they could touch. In his quest to survey more than 100 managed care systems vendors, author John R. Murray discovered that defining managed care is very much like describing an elephant without seeing the entire beast: Each company's definition is based on its niche and product offering to the market.
还记得三个盲人的故事吗？他们每个人都摸到了大象的不同部位。当被要求描述面前的物体时，他们每个人都描述了自己能摸到的部分。在对100多家管理式医疗系统供应商进行调查的过程中，作者约翰·R·默里发现，定义管理式医疗非常类似于在没有看到整头大象的情况下描述大象：每个公司的定义都基于其特定领域以及向市场提供的产品。
