title: Information management: a long-term investment.
abstract: Conventional information processes are inadequate to meet today's health care demands. To allocate scarce resources, new approaches to information management are needed. This article explains how tapping the horizontal flow of information--across departments, services and programs--presents the greatest opportunities and challenges for health care management. New information infrastructures can integrate the entire health care system, and ultimately lead to enhanced affordability.
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Haskell
authors: D L
authors: DL
authors: Smith
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003625:Data Collection; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D007257:Information Theory; D007449:Investments; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012107:Research Design