Information Systems - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Update on the status of 89 drug information centers in the United States.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: Previously identified U.S. drug information centers (DICs) were surveyed to determine whether they were still in existence and whether changes had occurred in the DICs since 2003. METHODS: Eighty-nine DICs identified in a 2003 survey were ... Read more...

Monitoring quality of care in residential care for the elderly: the information challenge.

29 Jun 2009 This study assesses the administrative data compiled on residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) by the state of California and considers the feasibility of their adaptation into a comprehensive information system. Required state RCFE ... Read more...

[Setting up a national information system for prevention]

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: The recent law (D.lgs n. 81/2008) redesigned all the Italian regulations regarding safety and health at work. It redesigned rules that up to now were contained in laws that were introduce over a period of over nearly sixty years, with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Information Systems - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Update on the status of 89 drug information centers in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Informatics in clinical instruction. 29 Sep 2009
• Commentary: is assisted living in the United States well served by regulations requiring the reporting of detailed operational data that are then posted on the Internet? 29 Jun 2009
• Monitoring quality of care in residential care for the elderly: the information challenge. 29 Jun 2009
• [Setting up a national information system for prevention] 29 Jun 2009
• A case for using grid architecture for state public health informatics: the Utah perspective. 20 Jun 2009
• Patient care. Taking the guesswork out of scheduling surgeries. 30 May 2009
• Regulation. Will your EHR be 'meaningful' by 2011? 30 May 2009
• Networking for children and adolescents with very rare tumors: foundation of the GPOH Pediatric Rare Tumor Group. 10 May 2009
• Translating nursing knowledge into practice: an uncommon partnership. 29 Apr 2009
• Research lands author in the midst of RFID controversy and on the award stand. 29 Apr 2009
• [The veterinary central information system from the foundation VETbase] 29 Apr 2009
• A novel method to link and validate routinely collected emergency department clinical data to measure quality of care. 14 Apr 2009
• Internet surveillance systems for early alerting of health threats. 31 Mar 2009
• Cancer informational support and health care service use among individuals newly diagnosed: a mixed methods approach. 30 Mar 2009
• LTC provider plays role in HIE development. 30 Mar 2009
• A national clinical decision support infrastructure to enable the widespread and consistent practice of genomic and personalized medicine. 21 Mar 2009
• PRISM framework: a paradigm shift for designing, strengthening and evaluating routine health information systems. 18 Mar 2009
• An emergency medical services toolkit for improving systems of care for stroke in North Carolina. 14 Mar 2009
• Plugging in a nation. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Information Systems'

Definition: Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.

Descriptor UI: D007256

Alternative terms: Information Systems; Information System; System, Information; Systems, Information; Data Systems; Data System; System, Data; Systems, Data; Information Retrieval Systems; Information Retrieval System; System, Information Retrieval; Systems, Information Retrieval; Ancillary Information Systems; Ancillary Information System; Information System, Ancillary; Information Systems, Ancillary; System, Ancillary Information; Systems, Ancillary Information; Emergency Care Information Systems;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: L01.700.508.300;

Online Note: use INFORMATION SYSTEMS to search INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS 1966-81; use EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS to search EMERGENCY CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1987-91

History Note: 82; was INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS 1966-81; EMERGENCY CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS was see EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 1987-91

Technical Notes: for automated systems do not coord with AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; for medical information systems do not coord with MEDICINE