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Provides information to make objective non biased decisions 

In a recent edition of "Communications" of the ACM (January 2001) the articles were devoted to the achieving of Democracy through the greater use of technology [an excellent publication for all public health economics to read].  In one article, Ignace Snellen's stated,

“In an information society, the raw data from which the information is derived is more important than the information processed by government...They [objective statistical data] exit with no purpose to convince anyone of anything. Furthermore, data analysis--by hand--would require so much time and effort that the results would be sporadic and available so late that they would hardly influence actual political decisions. With computers, however, such analysis is done easily and routinely. Another attraction of GIS [computer analysis] is they visualize highly complicated relationships between conditioning factors of problematic situations in a very convincing manner. As such, they have become strategic policy support facilities.  " (pg 46-47)

It is the Information System that makes possible this objective complex statistical analysis.

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