Meeting the Joint Commission's information management planning standard: a primer and example.

The 1994 edition of the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals contains the first release of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' new standards for information management. These standards reflect the Joint Commission's vision of how hospitals should be managing one of their key corporate assets: information. The article focuses on the information management planning section of the standards. A sample information management plan is provided along with practical advice and experience in conducting a strategic planning project.