title: The current systems assessment and the clinical care process. A tool for clinical supervision and the design of clinical information systems.
abstract: A side benefit of a current systems assessment carried out prior to automation was the development of a systematic picture of the clinical care system as captured in the system flow chart. The results of this assessment provided clinical administrators with a blueprint identifying the current system's strengths and weaknesses, which could be used both to introduce improvements and to measure the effect of such changes totally apart from the initial question of automation.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000458:organization & administration; D007256:Information Systems; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D013597:Systems Analysis; D014481:United States