introduction: in spite of the vast improvement in the area of mental health care delivery in this country, very little attention has been given to the mental health registry. considering the absence of an appropriate national mental health registry system in iran, the purpose of the present study was to formulate a preliminary model for mental health registry in iran. methods: in this comparati...

introduction: users of hospital information system know its problems better than others. studying their views are very important and can be especially effective in the development of the information system. the aim of this study was to investigate the users' views towards the quality of hospital information system in the training hospitals of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: the...

introduction: diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent causes of morbidities , mortalities and increasing cost of health care services all over the world. diabete’s clinical information system which is part of diabete’s information management system make it possible to manage this illness. this study aimed at comparing the diabetes clinical information systems in the u.s. , scotland and fi...

introduction: in a comprehensive health approach, emphasis has been more on education and self-care than care itself, and aims to increase patient’s knowledge to give decision making and independence ability to improve quality of lifestyle. these can develop with progress of information technology. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital information system (his) in meeting the patient dr...

This report endorses the author's own views on the subject after taking up a laboratory adviser mission in Africa. Taking the example of laboratory services practice in sub-Saharan countries, it is shown that diagnosis of diseases which require the use of laboratory suffer from lapses in the quality of case-detection and case-reporting. These services lack management and an information system t...

AIM To assess the effect of the use of bar code readers and programmable keypads for entry of specimen details and results in two microbiology laboratories. METHODS The solutions selected in each laboratory are described. The benefits resulting from the implementation were measured in two ways. The speed of data entry and error reduction were measured by observation. A questionnaire was compl...

Analytical chemistry enjoyed a revolution in instrumental techniques during the 1960s and 1970s. This, in turn, stimulated new developments of simple laboratory automation led by improved analytical instruments, auto-samplers and chromatographic integratcs. During the 1980s, new generations of powerful laboratory automation emerged; primarily laboratory information systems and laboratory roboti...

The OpenLabs project aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical laboratory services by integrating decision support systems with laboratory information systems and equipment. Standards for electronic data interchange between laboratories and other medical systems using the EUCLIDES/OpenLabs coding scheme and an open architecture for clinical laboratory information systems have...

LOINC is emerging as the standard for laboratory result names, and there is great interest in mapping legacy terms from laboratory systems to it. However, the mapping task is non-trivial, requiring significant resource commitment and a good understanding of the LOINC identifying attributes for the laboratory result names. Because the number of results in a laboratory system may range from aroun...