title: New information system can lend competitive edge.
abstract: Information technology provides more than just the means to collect data on best practices and outcomes. It can also give your facility an edge in competing for managed care contracts. Good data systems facilitate communication across the continuum of care and drastically reduce the time and labor needed to gather data and make outcomes comparisons. Managers from quality control, utilization, and other areas tasked with data monitoring should have input into designing and buying information systems.
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States