Consider the following ratings for the need for information and indicate which piece of information should be collected regularly and made available through the computer to decision makers, which other pieces of information should be planned for and finally which pieces of information does not require data collection. Show how your conclusions are derived from ranges and averages in the data, using the median to separate high and low values.

	Decisions
Information Item	Purchase physician profiling system	Purchase an EHR	Contract with a firm to assess satisfaction
Impact on cost of care	3	3	4
Impact on quality of care	1	6	7
Reputation of the firm	6	4	6
Sources of funds	7	2	4

Assume that cost is 2 times more important than reputation and reputation is 3 times more important than compatibility with existing systems, and compatibility is 5 times more than ease of use, what is the relative importance of all 4 attributes. Answer the question calculating weights.