This article discusses the Information System (IS) strategic planning for a naval hospital in Indonesia. Its purpose is to improve competitive advantage among hospitals through the addition of new services and products that would lead to improvements in the current patient services. The merging of Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology Information System (RIS), and Laboratory Information ...

Automation in clinical laboratories is not new. Since the pioneering work of Skeggs in developing continuous flow systems, automated analysers have become standard in almost all laboratories. It will be diYcult to imagine a modern clinical laboratory without automation. This form of automation is sometimes referred to as “microautomation.” The next stage in automation is the automation of speci...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to present a protocol for laboratory information system (LIS) and hospital information system (HIS) validation at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of the Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Validity of data traceability was checked by entering all test requests for virtual patient into HIS/LIS and ...

In an effort to keep information systems (IS) curriculum current with emerging technologies, this research reports the result of a survey of marketplace demand for database, data warehousing and business intelligence skills. Sample job and skills data were obtained from Dice.com’s online postings for jobs that required a bachelor’s degree in IS or equivalent qualifications. Cluster analysis rev...

The Medical information systems evolve constantly. The quality of the medical information system relies on competences, qualifications, and the organization of the participating partners. Those last ones belong to heterogeneous and autonomous information systems. So, it is necessary to assure a permanent cooperation. This paper shows a coherent architectural framework that allows the developmen...

Laboratory testing services are presently undergoing dynamic changes in response to a wide range of external factors. Government regulations, reimbursement, and managed care are only a few of the influences affecting the availability of testing services and on-site testing capabilities in hospital, independent, and physician office laboratories. Medical practice changes, marketplace influences,...

introduction: the role of the computer in information management has gradually increased the motivation for investment in computer systems for medical records. admission, coding, statistics, and filling units' software have important roles in health information management. however, their adaption and implementation needs the support of users. the goal of the present research is to determine use...

conclusions according to the average of wqi index, quality of water was good in station number one, medium in station number two, and bad in the rest of stations. according to the wilcox index, qualities of water in third station were medium and in the rest were good. results by using wqi, the best water quality was reported in station number one with the scalar quantity of 71.11 (water with be...

In this, the second of two articles on Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), the stages of the acquisition of a system are discussed. First, the laboratory automation strategy is developed leading to the writing of the requirements specification sent to prospective suppliers. The next step, in conjunction with the chosen supplier, is to write the functional and systems specification...