2002 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 71-77
The primary viewpoint on evaluating the medical information system should be put on the achievement and the completeness of the initial objects and targets of the system. The economic viewpoint of the cost-effectiveness is not primary, but secondary. The reliable evaluation of the achievement can be obtained by properly choosing measures of evaluation in each information system. This evaluation method is very reasonable and appropriate, and it can be clearly settled how the system should be managed after evaluation. The reasonableness of this evaluation method was proven, concretely evaluating three medical information systems (the supply and management system of injection drugs, the online medical image viewing system, the computerized nursing records system) developed at Kochi Medical School Hospital.
