title: Improving the quality of decision-making in health care management: a project report from the Nevada/Bohemia health management education partnership.
abstract: Health care is a data-sensitive and data-rich industry. Designers of health administration curricula recognize that future health care providers and managers must be trained to use available analytical and database information technology (IT) to transform these data into information helpful to the decision-maker. However, as the data available to administrators and clinicians proliferates, additional skills are needed to select data that is pertinent and useful. This paper presents the results of the collaboration of partners from Bohemia and University of Nevada and focuses on three areas: threats to the effective use of data to support health care decision-making;. health care decision support research and training strategies; future cross-disciplinary collaboration in health care decision support. Advanced IT methods have the potential to assist clinical and managerial decision-making. If further discussion is stimulated about the introduction of advanced IT methods into the health care management curriculum and research agenda, this paper will achieve its goal.
authors.affiliation: Joint Laboratory of the Faculty of Management, University of South Bohemia and Institute of Information Theory, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. pudil@utia.cas.cz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pudil
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paterson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D018153:Czech Republic; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D009505:Nevada; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000193:education*