PMID- 10313464
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19900525
LR  - 20170214
IS  - 0951-4848 (Print)
IS  - 0951-4848 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 3
DP  - 1989 Nov
TI  - The design and implementation of a management information system for Australian 
      public hospitals.
PG  - 176-90
AB  - Existing management information systems (MIS) in hospitals are often inadequate. 
      This has occurred because of a variety of antecedents, including past funding 
      mechanisms, organisational structure and the accepted role of management. A 
      variety of new pressures, including demands for increased accountability, greater 
      resource control and changing relationships between physicians and hospitals are 
      demanding improved MIS to enable the hospital to manage. This paper explores 
      these influences on past and future hospital MIS. It describes the design of a 
      MIS that enables patient care to be costed in clinically meaningful ways. Patient 
      costs may be aggregated to cost specific diagnoses and procedures, Diagnosis 
      Related Groups (DRG), a clinician's case load, a clinical unit or a division. The 
      information can be used for clinical budgeting, flexible budgeting, utilisation 
      review and quality assurance.
FAU - Stoelwinder, J U
AU  - Stoelwinder JU
FAU - Abernethy, M A
AU  - Abernethy MA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Health Serv Manage Res
JT  - Health services management research
JID - 8811549
MH  - Australia
MH  - Budgets
MH  - Computer Systems
MH  - Cost Allocation
MH  - Diagnosis-Related Groups/economics
MH  - Hospital Departments/*economics
MH  - Hospitals, Public/*organization & administration
MH  - *Management Information Systems
EDAT- 1989/10/06 00:00
MHDA- 1989/10/06 00:01
CRDT- 1989/10/06 00:00
PHST- 1989/10/06 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1989/10/06 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1989/10/06 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/095148488900200302 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Health Serv Manage Res. 1989 Nov;2(3):176-90. doi: 10.1177/095148488900200302.