Much data but limited information in the NHS.

Much data but limited information in the NHS.

The report Where are the children? used routinely gathered NHS data from 1984 to determine where children admitted to hospital were being cared for and whether Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) guidelines of some years standing were being followed.1 These were the best data available nationally but the study showed several major defects. Defects in data gathering Although the regi...

Improved information for the NHS.

The Secretary of State's acceptance of the recommendations of the Steering Group on Health Services Information rounds off a stage of an enterprise that seeks to align the collection, processing, and dissemination of information in the National Health Service to the clinical and economic realities of the present and foreseeable future. The steering group has produced six reports,'6 and on the t...

Project selection with limited resources in data envelopment‎ ‎analysis‎

‎In this paper allocating a fixed resource for producing ‎finite projects in order to obtaining a desired level of‎ ‎efficiency will be discussed‎. ‎Note that it is assumed that a ‎vector of limited sources is at hand‎. ‎This vector of resources can‎ ‎be contained human resource‎, ‎budget‎, ‎equipment‎, ‎and facilities‎. ‎In ‎any firm there exist different suggestions from subunits for ‎running...

The Information Age Measurement Paradox: Collecting Too Much Data

Information overload is one of the major challenges of management in the information age. Usually, the emphasis in the literature is on incoming information, whereas the creation of information or data is rarely discussed. This paper presents the measurement paradox and demonstrates how managerial decisions, or monitoring conventions, cause collection of tremendous amounts of unnecessary data. ...

Much has changed, but much remains the same.