An IAIMS for Baylor College of Medicine Walter B. Panko, Ph.D. Director, IAIMS Development Kirk C. Aune, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry G. Anthony Gorry, Ph.D. Vice-President for Institutional Development and Principal Investigator, IAIMS Baylor College of Medicine The concept o f the IAIMS, admirably described in the article by Matheson and Cooper, is a rich one that provides strong motivation to those academic medical centers that wish to enhance the excellence of their programs of education, research and patient care. The effort required for a single institution to reach the level of information management envisioned in the fully articulated IAIMS concept will be formidable. To be even partially succesful in such an endeavor, an institution must muster an impressive array of technologic and intellectual resources, and it must effect significant organizational changes. The complexity of the LMMS concept and the unique aspects of each academic medical center means that despite the presence of certain common features, the evolutionary Critical Success Factors As shown in "Organizational Equilibrium" below, managers must try to maintain an equilibrium between the various components of the academic health science center. This balancing process is not easy to achieve or maintain. The many worthy
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