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The overall objectives of computer-supported information systems (IS) in the health care field are to raise the quality and relevance of information, and to improve the flow of information within and between the respective organizations. Historically the application of electronic data processing (DP) tended first — for technical and economical reasons towards a centralization of the computing resources yielding in centralized IS. During the last years essential progress in information technology, especially with regard to mini/micro-processors and data communications, allowed for a controlled decentralization of system components and functions by creating distributed information systems (DIS). Their global goal is to improve the organization’s effectiveness and efficiency based on a better matching of information processing and organizational structures.
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Sauter, K. (1985). Integration by Distribution — A Contradiction or an Evolutionary Methodology to Develop Multi-Functional Health Information Systems?. In: Roger, F.H., Grönroos, P., Tervo-Pellikka, R., O’Moore, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 85. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93295-3_3
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