This study demonstrates the clear value of HCI evaluation in informing the redesign of information tools such as CDS.
Information booklets, the lowest-cost information tools, have been developed to help health care providers inform and educate patients.
Disseminating information, tools and advice through webinars, roadshows, and workshops can help.
Memory storage devices -- answering machines, e-mail, caller ID -- are more than information tools.
DCM started a Web site called MyWayForward.com to provide the bereaved with information, tools and, some day, products.
The explosion of Web-based information tools has added to the unease.
In the Control Panel's search box, type "performance" and click the resulting Performance and Information Tools link.
But in an interview last month, he said: "The current information tools are still difficult to set up.
"If we can give employees the information, tools" and money, he said, "they will make the right decisions" about obtaining care.
"The new information tools symbolized by the Internet are radically changing the possibility of how we can organize large-scale human efforts," said Thomas W. Malone, director of the M.I.T. Center for Collective Intelligence.
The manual will sit alongside a range of other information, tools and useful background on these types of investment - including advice on organising events - on a specially set-up website, neiw.org.
