The author suggests four ways that management information systems can complement the efforts of program evaluators. These ways are: clarifying the purposes of and uses for collecting information; clarifying the releva...
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The author suggests four ways that management information systems can complement the efforts of program evaluators. These ways are: clarifying the purposes of and uses for collecting information; clarifying the relevancy of information that is collected and stored; constructing a data base that accounts for the differential needs of users; and generating reports in a timely and comprehensible manner. Interwoven throughout these ways is the premise that program evaluators need to attend more to the decisional needs of various users, particularly managers. An information system can assist program evaluators toward this end.
The LATCH program developed as a means of expanding the librarys circle of communication. Online LATCH was initiated to save time, reduce paperwork and to provide information that impacts directly on patient care. Ini...
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In an era of diminishing health care resources, the number of online support groups is increasing. These groups consist of individuals seeking assistance with problems such as depression, suicidal tendencies, substanc...
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The increasing volume of calls received by a poisons centre, such as the National Poisons Unit, Guy's Hospital, London is placing the present information services under escalating pressure. Recent developments in ...
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The increasing volume of calls received by a poisons centre, such as the National Poisons Unit, Guy's Hospital, London is placing the present information services under escalating pressure. Recent developments in the technologies used to store and manipulate data have resulted in a number of public and private computerized systems being made available. In order to maximize the benefit of the new technologies to a Poisons Centre Information Service it would be desirable to create an integrated system to link the currently unrelated systems. Such an integrated system would be capable of retrieving bibliographic information from bibliographic files similar to MEDLINE and EMBASE and data from source information files such as RTECS and ECDIN, with the user only having to make one enquiry. This paper examines the current position with regard to computerized information sources in toxicology and discusses how an integrated system might improve the efficiency of a poisons centre's information retrieval service and outlines some of the obstacles to the development of such a system.
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