title: Achieving competitive advantage through information management.
abstract: Healthcare organizations exist to deliver quality services at appropriate prices. The issue, of course, is how to define quality services and appropriate prices--or, in other words, how to compete. To ignore this question is to invite erosion of market share and deterioration of margins--the twin components of superior performance.
authors: L C
authors: LC
authors: Forthman
mesh_terms: D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D004465:Economic Competition; D005544:Forecasting; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics*; D006761:Hospitals; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008331:Management Information Systems; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000191:economics*