title: From the back room to the board room.
abstract: CIOs are gaining new responsibilities as health care organizations turn to their information systems departments for help in achieving strategic objectives. CIOs are moving up the corporate ladder, participating in top-level decisionmaking and devising new ways to use information technology to solve business problems. They're discovering that an understanding of managed care and other industry trends is more important than technical knowledge of computers.
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authors.lastname: Bunschoten
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000639:trends; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011361:Professional Competence; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States