Automated hospital information systems, a benefits optimization program

In 1982, the Center for Health Management Research, Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California published Evaluating Automated Hospital Information Systems, an instruction manual designed to help hospitals measure and evaluate the outcomes of automated hospital information system (AHIS) implementation. (Strum et al., 1982) The Center has now published a companion volume, Benefits Optimization for Automated Hospital Information Systems 1983). Whereas the evaluation manual aims at a broadly based, system wide comparison of projected versus realized AHIS outcomes, the optimization manual is designed to help hospitals formulate and implement highly focused, remedial and adaptive management interventions in the AHIS envirori ment. The end of such interventions is to operationalize an optimal, hospital specific mix and level of AHIS-related benefits.