Offering a broad range of discussions concerning health care information systems, the first part of this book explores the implications of working in a computer-based environment. Part two topics include: linkages for nurse administrators; computer-augmented performance evaluation; information access for research-based practice; and communication structure enhancement for nursing research. The final part suggests ways of changing health care settings through the use of information systems.

This text is the first in a series sponsored by the Administrative Science Quarterly, designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science which have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behaviour.