The ABCs for deciding on a decision support system in the health care industry

As the information superhighway becomes clustered with various organizations sharing the hope of staying solvent with the aid of technology, managers in the health care industry are more and more looking to efficient Decision Support Systems (DSS). The focus of DSS selection has often been on evalua...

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Published inJournal of health and human services administration Vol. 22; no. 3; p. 346
Main Authors Rivers, J A, Rivers, P A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 2000
Subjects
Contract Services - standards
Data Collection
Decision Making, Organizational
Decision Support Systems, Management - standards
Expert Systems
Guidelines as Topic
Health Services Administration
Humans
Information Management - standards
Needs Assessment
Software Design
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
United States
User-Computer Interface
United States
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Summary:As the information superhighway becomes clustered with various organizations sharing the hope of staying solvent with the aid of technology, managers in the health care industry are more and more looking to efficient Decision Support Systems (DSS). The focus of DSS selection has often been on evaluations that measure decision performance for determining the influence and efficacy of the tool. Such evaluations, in many instances, ignore pertinent measurements for a successful selection and implementation of a DSS. In this article, the authors present a simple but important set of evaluation factors that can "make or break" a DSS implementation in the health care industry.
ISSN:1079-3739