Pathologists, computers, and control of the clinical laboratory database.
There will be increasing competition in hospitals for access to and control of the hospital clinical database, and one of the major causes of this competition, the author suggests, is that administrators and physicians have a different set of goals and objectives. To maintain the integrity of the lab database, pathologists must lobby vigorously for a partly decentralized system with the lab's information system operating semi-autonomously.
D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010337:Pathology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010819:Physician's Role; D012380:Role; D014481:United States