title: Strategic information management plans: the basis for systematic information management in hospitals.
abstract: Information management in hospitals is a complex task. In order to reduce complexity, we distinguish strategic, tactical, and operational information management. This is essential, because each of these information management levels views hospital information systems from different perspectives, and therefore uses other methods and tools. Since all these management activities deal only in part with computers, but mainly with human beings and their social behavior, we define a hospital information system as a sociotechnical subsystem of a hospital. Without proper strategic planning it would be a matter of chance, if a hospital information system would fulfil the information strategies goals. In order to support strategic planning and to reduce efforts for creating strategic plans, we propose a practicable structure.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Leipzig, Statistics, and Epidemiology, Liebigstrasse 27, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. winter@imise.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ammenwerth
authors.forename: O J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Bott
authors.forename: B
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authors.lastname: Brigl
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authors.lastname: Buchauer
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authors.lastname: Gräber
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authors.lastname: Grant
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authors.lastname: Häber
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authors.lastname: Hasselbring
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authors.lastname: Haux
authors.forename: A
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authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: H
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authors.lastname: Janssen
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authors.lastname: Kock
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Penger
authors.forename: H U
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authors.lastname: Prokosch
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authors.lastname: Terstappen
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authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012924:Social Conditions