title: Selecting a commercial clinical information system: an academic medical center's experience.
abstract: Choosing a commercial clinical information system to meet the information needs of patient care, research, education, administration, finance, and ongoing changes of the healthcare system of an academic medical center is a challenging task. For the past six months, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center undertook this task through (i) establishing a task force, (ii) assessing end-user information needs, (iii) understanding future institutional development and strategies, (iv) conceptualizing the ideal system, (v) identifying a short list of vendors, (vi) sending RFIs to vendors, (vii) visiting vendors' headquarters, (viii) technical review, (ix) reference calls, (x) using consultation services, (xi) on-site demonstration, and (xii) visiting the vendor's clients.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Technology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Abendroth
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003199:Computer Systems; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010564:Personnel, Hospital