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continue to shift from being product oriented to knowledge oriented and as they
begin emphasizing the production process itself rather than the product. In health
care, ISs must be able to handle the volume of data and information necessary to
generate the needed information and knowledge for best practices, because the
goal is to provide the highest quality of patient care.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
ISs can be manually based, but for the purposes of this text, the term refers to
computer-based information systems (CBISs). According to Jessup and Valacich
(2008), computer-based ISs “are combinations of hardware, software and
telecomm ...