An interactive strategic information management plan to integrate strategic and tactical information management in hospitals

Abstract

The precondition for systematic information management is a strategic information management plan that has to be monitored constantly. In general, such a plan is a paper document that goes out of date fast, what reduces the acceptance among the users even faster. Moreover, in the majority of cases no systematic monitoring of whether the goals described in the SIM plan are achieved takes place during the validity period of the plan. The aim of the work described here was to publish the SIM plan as an interactive document, and in parallel to offer a possibility to monitor the plan's goals. To evaluate potentials and acceptance of different technological approaches, two alternative concepts were developed and compared.