Information systems management under pressure.

Changes in clinical management and reimbursement approaches have placed new pressures on psychiatric hospitals to have immediate access to critical information. Information systems management is in the difficult position of responding--while under this pressure--to a host of requests for computer applications that may be at cross purposes with each other. Pine Rest Christian Hospital, a full-continuum, 146-bed, not-for-profit psychiatric facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been preparing tactics to deal with information systems management under pressure. This paper describes the consequent information systems management approaches and some of the critical computer applications Pine Rest has installed.