Long-term care information systems: an overview of the selection process.
Under the current Medicare Prospective Payment System method and the ever-changing managed care environment, the long-term care information system is vital to providing quality care and to surviving in business. system selection process should be an interdisciplinary effort involving all necessary stakeholders for the proposed system. The system selection process can be modeled following the Systems Developmental Life Cycle: identifying problems, opportunities, and objectives; determining information requirements; analyzing system needs; designing the recommended system; and developing and documenting software.
Nahm
Eun-Shim
ES
University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore 21201, USA.
Mills
Mary Etta
ME
Feege
Barbara
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