title: Strategic planning: a challenge of medical record professionals.
abstract: Strategic planning guides the organization's short and long-term activities. The sharper business focus of today's health care environment forces rapid fire decision-making and shortens the strategy time frame. In this condensed time frame, strategists have little patience for inaccurate or untimely information.
mesh_terms: D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006752:Hospital Planning; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008497:Medical Record Administrators; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States