Examining quality of care-how poor information flow can impact on hospital workflow and affect patient outcomes

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 1889-1897

  Lederman, R ^a   Morrison, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Decision making; Delay; Health information management; Hospitals; Management information systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Nervous system; Quality management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; HOSPITALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DELAY; HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MEDICAL TREATMENT;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27544491533     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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