introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...

introduction: hospitals are responsible to respond to legitimate demands for health information release while protecting the confidentiality of patient health records. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of health information disclosure for legal authorities in iran and some selected countries. methods: this descriptive-comparative study included health information disclosure...

background: health records serve several purposes and must be retained to meet those purposes. these varied purposes influence how long health records must be kept, or their retention period. the present study aimed to recognize laws and procedures related to retention of health records in selected countries and provide a proposed guideline for iran. methods: this was an applied, descriptive-co...

introduction: patient- centered and perspective approach which prefers prevention to cure, to improve and promote the services and care, not only recognizes free flow of patient’s information, but also concurrently is concerned about maintaining security and privacy as an important feature of health care system. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of accessibility and privacy of...

We introduce a method called neighbor-based bootstrapping (NB2) that can be used to quantify the geospatial variation of a variable. We applied this method to an analysis of the incidence rates of disease from electronic medical record data (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes) for ∼100 million individuals in the United States over a period of 8 years. We considered t...

Patient medical record systems (MRS) merely offer static applications, in which mostly unstructured text is linked to coded data. In these applications the more common presentation is a time oriented one, which does not allow easily for data and information retrieval. Concept oriented views based on supper-concepts (metaterms) initially defined in CISMeF to optimize Web medical search, was impl...

In response to mounting evidence that use of electronic medical record systems may cause unintended consequences, and even patient harm, the AMIA Board of Directors convened a Task Force on Usability to examine evidence from the literature and make recommendations. This task force was composed of representatives from both academic settings and vendors of electronic health record (EHR) systems. ...

introduction: hospital managers are always concerned about provision and careful control of financial resources. in this study the deductions applied by khadamat-e-darman insurance company on patients' bills at university hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sciences were investigated. methods: in this cross–sectional study, data were collected in a checklist consisting of nine...

introduction: organizational justice is a variable that predicts many organizational variables. one of these variables that have an important role in many organizations today is organizational citizenship behavior. so this study aimed to study the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among medical record staff in selected hospitals of isfahan in 20...