background: improving patient safety is a priority of the international common. patient safety is a critical component to the quality of health care. the aim of this study was to assess patient safety culture among employees of health care providers, hospitals in tehran. methods: the survey was a cross-sectional study was done in 2010. data were collected from all the staff groups in hospitals ...

introduction: the healthcare sector is one of the areas affected by information technology (it). due to the importance of it in hospitals and factors affecting its use, the present study was conducted to investigate the human factors affecting the use of it among managers of university hospitals in shiraz, iran. methods: this applied and analytic study was conducted in 2014 in 7 university hosp...

introduction: today, with increasing emphasis on learning organizations, knowledge and learning are considered important factors in organizations and having updated knowledge and information have become an unavoidable necessity to continue the life and stability of these organizations. hence this study was conducted to study  the relationship between learning organization & leadership styles ed...

Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the use and impact of performance data relevant to women’s health. Methods: We developed a survey on six levels of information use based on Knott and Wildavsky’s (1980) policy utilization framework and used this survey to determine Ontario hospital administrators’ use of women’s health report indicators. We related responses to this survey to...

Given that the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is expected to generate forces toward physician-hospital integration, this study examined an understudied, albeit important, area of costs incurred in physician-hospital integration. Such costs were analyzed through 24 semi-structured interviews with physicians and hospital administrators in a multiple-case, indu...

Although general guidelines have been developed for triage of victims in the field and for hospitals to plan for a radiologic event, specific information for clinicians and administrators is not available for guidance in efficient management of radiation victims during their early encounter in the hospital. A consensus document was developed by staff members of four Connecticut hospitals, two i...

introduction: one of the types of hospital management information systems is decision support information system (dsis). this system uses decision-making models and databases for preparing specific information to support their semi-structured or unstructured decisions. the present study aimed to design a decision dsis model for board of trustees of ayatollah kashani hospital, shahrekord, iran. ...

Medical Informatics (MI) is a specific discipline arising from the increasing intersection of computer science and medicine. It is closely related to bioinformatics however the biological domain experts in MI are health care providers rather than biological scientists. The core focus of MI is the processing of clinical information as opposed to purely scientific data the domain of bioinformatic...

METHODS: In March 2012, we launched a high-value care (HVC) program within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The HVC program is co-led by a physician and the division’s administrator, and includes other hospitalists, resident physicians, pharmacists, and administrators. The program aims to (1) use financial and clinical data to identify areas with...