Strategic Information Management in Hospitals

Abstract

Until now we have discussed how health information systems look like and how their quality can be described and measured. We will now examine how high quality health information systems can be achieved and how high quality can be maintained, especially in hospitals. High quality HIS can only by achieved and HIS failures can only be prevented if the HIS are systematically planned, monitored and directed. We summarize this triad by the term ‘information management’.