Chapter 15

Strategic Health Care Human Resources Technology

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the importance of technology to strategic human resources management
  • Discuss what a human resources information system (HRIS) is
  • Explain how an HRIS is useful when undertaking HR planning
  • Recognize how technology is promoting changes in organizational structures and job design

Technology is making health care more portable. In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Medicine on the Move,” Stephanie Simon (2011) writes that Vscan, a portable ultrasound device that is approximately the size of a cell phone, allows cardiologists and their patients to look directly into the heart to check out the muscle, valves, rhythm, and blood flow. Other technology tools ...

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