The Evaluation of Computer Systems for Use in the Consulting Room

Increasingly it is being recognised that the critical requirement for an effective health information system is that the system is used directly at the point of health care delivery — that is the point at which the patient and practitioner meet. We believe this principal will, for example, underlie the effective implementation of Resource Management systems. To provide valid and reliable management data the systems need to be designed around the needs and work of clinicians and other practitioners. Thus management systems should be ‘piggy-backed’ onto practitioner systems.