Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. is a Nashville based healthcare company that provides an information technology system that integrates clinical and financial applications on a single IBM platform to over 600 community hospitals nationwide. Since 1984, the Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. system helps caregivers to deliver quality care at the right time and place with an emphasis on improving patient safety and financial performance. Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. (HMS) has carved out a name for itself as an innovator in healthcare technology among hospital information technology providers. For more than two decades, HMS has established itself as a company that develops, sells and supports integrated clinical and financial hospital information systems and services.