BACKGROUND Quality of care public reporting provides structural, process and outcome information to facilitate hospital choice and strengthen quality competition. Yet, evidence indicates that patients rarely use this information in their decision-making, due to limited awareness of the data and complex and conflicting information. While there is enthusiasm among policy makers for public reporti...

introduction surgical site infection is a common side effect of surgeries that causes an increase in morbidity, mortality , patient length of stay in the hospital and hospital expenses. quality management as an organizational strategy helps improve working processes and enhance hospital productivity. method this study aimed to examine the impact of applying a quality management technique on red...

Information management in hospitals requires a strategic plan that gives directives for the construction and development of a hospital information system. The paper describes the purpose and a suggested structure for those strategic plans. This structure is a central component for a guideline that may be used for creating and updating strategic plans.

OBJECTIVES In this research, the hospital information system of Gachon University Gil hospital is introduced and a future strategy for hospital information systems is proposed. METHODS This research introduces the development conditions of hospital information system at Gachon University Gil hospital, information about the development of the enterprise resource planning (ERP), a medical servi...

background: in addition of the socio-economics costs, trauma is the 4th cause of death at all age groups, in 2000, trauma was caused more than 6 million deaths in the world. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health care and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective p...

OBJECTIVES For planning hospital information systems it is important to recognize the interrelation between business processes and the communication needs between supporting application systems. We therefore present an approach to model, visualize and analyze those interdependencies. METHODS The approach is based on the concepts defined in 3LGM2, a meta-model to describe health information sy...

Intranet is widely used for internal access, analysis and exchange of organisation accounting and control information. As a tool of information communication, intranet use affects the information characteristics of content presentation in Management Accounting Systems. Management Accounting Systems incorporate the structure, processes, tools, and techniques for the provision of information to a...

advantages and disadvantages of hospital information systems in teaching hospitals of urmia university of medical sciences     jebraeily m [1] *, raheimi b [2] , zareh z [3] , dolani a [4]     received: 18feb, 2012 accepted: 22may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the critical requirement of healthcare services on information and also disabilities of paper chart to meet these serious nee...