...Goce Gavrilov; Elena Vlahu- Gjorgievska; Vladimir Trajkovik Purpose – Information systems play a significant role in the improving of health and healthcare, as well as in the planning and financing of health services. Fund’s Information System is an essential component of the information...

... been mined to collate key data, the following exemplary one‐liners served as an introductory summation for both participant and interviewer: Melanie Jessup can be contacted at: M.Jessup@Griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Emergency treatment Information systems...

...N.C. Proudlove; R. Boaden Purpose To consider how information and information systems can be used to support improving patient flow in acute hospitals (a key target for the National Health Service in England), and the potential role of the National Programme for Information Technology currently...

... in 1950, we clearly see the growing trend of the health‐care sector (Folland et al., 1997). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Information systems Information technology Employees Health care Goals Convergence Given the importance of the health‐care industry to the USA...

..., by virtue of the nature of its specialisation, was the first department, outside the Imaging department, to acquire the system. the time taken to obtain an image; the number of steps necessary to obtain an image. It is widely recognised that successful evaluation of information systems...

... theory applicable in organisational studies. CST is relatively well established within management studies and is becoming increasingly known in the information systems field (Hirschheim and Klein, 1989; Alvesson and Willmott, 1996; Warren and Adman, 1999). Hirschheim and Klein (1989) identify...

... episodes (FCEs) or some other measure may be more appropriate, it seems that the bed is still seen by many as the main unit of currency for negotiation, and perhaps as a measure of power. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Hospitals Management Information systems United Kingdom In Greater...

... of system within a homogeneous organisational sector. This paper presents the results of a survey of IM&T managers within Community Trusts to gain insights into the factors affecting the success of Community Information Systems. The results demonstrate that the most successful operational systems were...

...Joao Ausse; Mayeh A. Omar; Silvia Mamede; Marinila Calderaro Munguba Mecedo; Augusto Pinto; Jocileide Sales Campos Discusses the national health information system in Brazil which,until very recently, consisted of two main structures of health services with a dichotomy between curative...

...Suresh S. Prabhu Hospital information systems have evolved from data processing systems for patient billing and payroll to decision‐support systems which support decision making at the middle and upper management levels. With the advancements in the areas of database management, expert systems...

... by the census. Identifies four main problem areas: the lack of success of past IM&T initiatives undermines confidence in the current strategy; the strategy is poorly aligned with other policy initiatives; the legacy of discrete,proprietary information systems within hospitals makes the creation...

...Stephen Munday; David W. Young The attitudes of doctors towards Computer‐Based Information Systems(CBIS) are crucial to the successful implementation of medical audit,resource management and clinical protocols. We present the results of a postal questionnaire survey of 846 consultants (471 replies...

...” of health and social care and information systems. A survey conducted in the North Western Regional Health Authority area confirms many of the findings of recent work and raises other issues for health and social services managers. These include the need to: recognize and alter bad clinical‐organizational...