Hospital managers need management information systems.
A new hospital director seeking to bring his institution to the brink of solvency found himself with ten pounds of data but no "information"--at least, not the kind of information he could use as a basis for management decisions. What he needed was a system that would not only present data, but the meaning of the data. Such a system is the integrated MIS.
D003201:Computers; D003657:Decision Making; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems