...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...

..., rather than an outsider's observations. Emergency treatment Information systems Patients Software tools Medical care Australia The aim of the detailed consultation process with ED staff and bed management planning staff was to define User expectations: What do you expect? and Functional...

...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...

... means that the principal has less control and the potential for low goal‐aligned behavior is high. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Information systems Information technology Employees Health care Goals Convergence This group practice represents a closed staff multi‐specialty medical...

... of information systems requires the application of different methods to suit the purpose of the study (Dymoke‐Bradshaw and Cox, 1999). Accordingly, a variety of evaluation methods both qualitative and quantitative were used in this research. In order to investigate whether users were satisfied with the system...

... introduction, leading to a re‐examination of issues concerning: historical context, emancipatory practice and the role of the systems analyst. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Information technology Communications technology Modelling Hospitals Information systems Action research There are many...

... of most areas. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Hospitals Management Information systems United Kingdom In Greater Manchester, GMAS (the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service) have installed an information system which the bed managers use to inform each other of the general level of bed...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...