introduction: since hospitals are the main healthcare providers, they are assumed as the main institutions for implementing information systems. hospitals need efficient hospital information system (his) to manage their raising needs. this study reviewed the importance of his, implementation of prerequisites and selection factors from views of staff of medical record department in hospitals aff...

i n troduction: users’ behavioral intention to use the picture archiving and communication system (pacs) is important in the systems’ success and is an indicator of the users’ satisfaction with commitment and dependence on information systems. the present study aimed to evaluate the users’ continuous intention to use pacs based on the expectation confirmation model in educational hospitals of s...

introduction: efficient use of information systems in provision of health services is very important for achieving efficiency, effectiveness and service quality. in this study the various aspects of clinical information systems implementation and estimate of one of main users' knowledge about these systems in hospitals was investigated. methods: this study was conducted in two-stages: in the fi...

This paper provides an introduction to the clinical laboratory information system (LABKA) research database in Northern and Central Denmark. The database contains millions of stored laboratory test results for patients living in the two Danish regions, encompassing 1.8 million residents, or one-third of the country's population. More than 1700 different types of blood test analyses are availabl...

Introduction The aim of the study was to investigate the state-of-the-art of the performance of critical value reporting and provide recommendations for laboratories setting critical value reporting time frames. Materials and methods The National Centre for Clinical Laboratories in China initiated a critical value reporting investigation in 2015. A questionnaire related to critical value repo...

clinical laboratory results play an important role in helping physicians in diagnosis and treatment. in view of the direct effect of the working methods on the quality of data in the laboratory, quality control of data and results in the biochemistry ward of laboratory includes taking into account all the factors and variables relating to all the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical s...

BACKGROUND Mislabeled samples are a serious problem in most clinical laboratories. Published error rates range from 0.39/1000 to as high as 1.12%. Standardization of bar codes and label formats has not yet achieved the needed improvement. The mislabel rate in our laboratory, although low compared with published rates, prompted us to seek a solution to achieve zero errors. METHODS To reduce or...