title: Hospital information systems and quality assurance.
abstract: Hospital information systems may contribute in different ways to quality assurance activities such as assessing the quality of primary care, monitoring quality indicators, supporting clinical care evaluation studies, and auditing concurrently the ongoing process of care using reminders or decision support techniques. Examples of effective contributions are given. However, to meet all requests of quality assurance in real-world settings many efforts developing new technologies will still be necessary.
authors.affiliation: University of Tübingen, Institute for Medical Information Processing, FRG.
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Selbmann
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pietsch-Breitfeld
mesh_terms: D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000379:methods; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*