title: Nursing information systems: who needs them?
abstract: This article examines some of the reasons why--both financial and perceptual--organizations are becoming skeptical of nursing information systems. Then it delineates some key benefits and explains how nursing can and should be prepared to head off such skepticism.
authors.affiliation: HBO & Company, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*