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Final Remarks

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Health information systems in general and hospital information systems in particular are sometimes compared to large tankers crossing the oceans. Like tankers, these information systems need careful and long-term planning (planning its course), they need continual monitoring to ensure their course is still followed (staying on course), and they react only very slowly to directing (steering) activities.

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  1. Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Alfred Winter PhD (Professor of Medical Informatics) & Franziska Jahn Dipl.-Inf.

  2. Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany

    Reinhold Haux PhD (Professor of Medical Informatics) & Nils Hellrung PhD

  3. Institute for Health Information Systems, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Hall in Tirol, Austria

    Elske Ammenwerth PhD (Professor of Medical Informatics)

  4. Friedrichsdorf, Germany

    Birgit Brigl PhD

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Winter, A., Haux, R., Ammenwerth, E., Brigl, B., Hellrung, N., Jahn, F. (2010). Final Remarks. In: Health Information Systems. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-441-8_11

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