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...

Hospital information systems (HIS) have been in use for decades worldwide and for many years now in the area of the Middle East. Many hospitals in Saudi Arabia started to adopt HIS, where this adoption process is still facing challenges from different aspects. On top of these come the technical and the human challenges which might complicate the implementation of HIS as well as the training of ...

In his influential account of the history of the development and implementation of computer-based systems, Friedman (1989) formulates the drive to innovate as a reaction to commonly occurring failures of Information Systems Development (ISD) in organisations. In this respect then, failure has played a pivotal role in shaping the dynamics of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It ...

In today's dynamic health systems, technology plays an important role in education and nursing work. So it seems necessary to study the role of nurses and highlight the need for appropriate information technology educational programs to integrate with the ever-increasing pace of technology. A review accompanied by an extensive literature search in databases and a library search focused on the k...

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...

PURPOSE To illustrate approaches for providing decision support for evidence-based nursing practice through integration of evidence into clinical information systems (CISs) with examples from our experience at Columbia University Medical Center. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT Examples are organized according to three types of decision support functions: information management, focusing attention, and p...

The need for accessibility to information is growing for all those involved in the process of care. On the one hand, it is observed that clients’ participation in making their own health decisions is growing; at the same time, healthcare professionals demand that clinical information be present at the time and place it is most needed, regardless of its origin or healthcare level. On the other h...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to describe nurse managers' perceptions of the use of electronic information systems in their daily work. Several kinds of software are used for administrative and information management purposes in health care organizations, but the issue has been studied less from nurse managers' perspective. METHODS The material for this qualitative study was acquired a...