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Motivation for the development and implementation of computerized hospital information systems has been financial and administrative, i.e., driven by the need to capture charges and document patient care for legal reasons The majority of systems marketed today have been motivated by those two factors. Historically, such systems have required a major investment in hardware (typically a mainframe), and, even though they have demonstrated significant improvement in hospital communications (with a corresponding reduction in paper flow), they have been characteristically weak in supporting professional nursing practice. These factors have prevented the level of acceptance by nurses that was originally foreseen. Only recently have developers and vendors begun to consider the nature of modern nursing practice and its information processing requirements (see Figure 6.1).
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Hannah, K.J., Ball, M.J., Edwards, M.J.A. (1999). Nursing Aspects of Health Information Systems. In: Introduction to Nursing Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3095-1_6
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