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T K Zinn

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Healthcare I/S executives look toward the next decade.

A survey of I/S executives conducted specifically for Computers in Healthcare reveals that the perception of the institutional mindset as leader, follower or average hospital makes a great deal of difference both in approach to I/S issues and in their relative priority.

Data Collection↗

Survey reveals portrait of today's healthcare CIO.

I/S executives in community hospitals across the United States have reason to celebrate! They are finally moving into the executive suite, with the titles, reporting status, staffing levels and salary to prove it.

Career Mobility↗

Enabling technologies build bridge to 21st century.

The sophisticated healthcare institutions of the future will be computer-driven integrated clinical creatures. But which technologies are key to overall information access? Futurist Tim Zinn stalks tomorrow's "best of breed" I/S technologies.

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HIS technology trends.

In the hospital information systems of the year 2000, futuristic technology will play a major role in managing the data needs of providers. Although systems managers face formidable challenges, they can make effective use of these new technologies by coordinating the roles of systems, personnel and planning in their own facilities.

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Voice recognition: the key to hospital dominance.

Although still three to five years away, digitized voice recognition and input may hold the key to a comprehensive electronic patient clinical record and ultimately permit hospitals to retain their position as the depository of patient clinical data, according to healthcare futurist Tim Zinn.

Diffusion of Innovation↗

Confronting 2000 and beyond: tomorrow's healthcare information system.

The promising healthcare information systems of tomorrow will be founded on strategies and technology that is already available today. In this article, Tim K. Zinn examines the information systems of the future, as well as the developments that will make such systems a reality.

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Benchmarking system expectations.

Development of the first large, comprehensive HIS database started in 1982 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The National Survey of Hospital Information Systems, initially an academic endeavor, launched a massive data collection effort. McGraw-Hill assumed ownership of this database, renaming it PROFILE in 1987.

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Healthcare information systems as they evolve to the year 2000.

The revolution in healthcare information systems will continue in the next decade and beyond, with information becoming a more valuable source of quality control and cost savings for hospitals and other providers. In this article, Tim K. Zinn examines the future development of specific technologies, and discusses their impact on hospitals, systems suppliers and healthcare consultants.

Diffusion of Innovation↗

Actualizing system benefits--Part II.

Do benefits impact the psychology of the information system buying decision? Is system success tied to achieving "promoted" benefits? Part II of this series reveals responses from a survey of some 3,000 executives about the importance of qualitative and quantitative benefits in the "buying process."

Attitude to Computers↗

Actualizing system benefits--Part IV.

Although hospitals continue to gain benefits from computerization, these benefits often fall short of expectations. Part IV of this series examines why department heads and administrators fail to achieve the kind of tangible, quantitative benefits that convinced them to buy information systems in the first place.

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