Clinical Information System (CIS) - Array or collection of applications and functionality; amalgamation of systems, medical equipment, and technologies working together that are committed or dedicated to collecting, storing and manipulating healthcare data and information and providing secure access to inter-disciplinary clinicians navigating the continuum of cient care; designed to collect patient data in real time to enhance care by providing data at the clinician's fingertips and enabling decision making where it needs to occur, at the bedside; also known as clinical documentation systems.