Discuss the Stakeholders in Health Information Systems

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According to Martin and Powell (1992) ―a system is a collection of entities which are interrelated to each other and to their environment so they form a whole. While the Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Dictionary defined system as a group of things or systems working together as a whole. From the two above definition you can see clearly that when we talking about system, we are referring to several things working together in unity under the control of one entity for efficiency or optimization. It also means different things doing different work but less than one entity or whole for the successful functioning of that entity or whole. Thus in any system there are always subsystems that are constantly interacting.

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