background: awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. this study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of birjand university of medical sciences. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on system...

continual medical training has been regarded as necessary case for preserving and promoting skills of graduates of medicine on which basis continual curricula of medical society are being executed in order to promote job knowledge and skills and improve provision of health-therapeutic services in the country. now, after some years of continual curricula commencement, this question about effecti...

introduction: due to the importance of electronic medical record (emr) in the quality of health care services, checking the readiness of hospitals to implement it is a vital step to define success or failure of the electronic medical record in the first place. the aim of this study was to evaluate the readiness of shiraz teaching hospitals to implement electronic medical record. method: this st...

background: role of information source, perceived benefits and risks, and destination image has significantly been examined in travel and tourism literature; however, in medical tourism it is yet to be examined thoroughly. the concept discussed in this article is drawn form well established models in tourism literature. methods: the purpose of this research was to identify the source of informa...

introduction: medical libraries and information centers, as service organizations, need standard tools and methods to be able to measure and increase quality of their services, so as to be able to meet the needs of their users in support of the improvement of the performance of their parent institutions. methods: one of the available standard tools of quality measurement is the european foundat...

background: the planners and managers in health policy sector are responsible for policy making and planning of the health structure of a country. therefore, they need to have access to reasonable and accurate information. knowledge of managers about the applications of hospital information system is therefore of high importance. this study aimed to survey the knowledge of managers of hamadan u...

introduction: over the past few decades, two revolutionary approaches have emerged as a new form of medical education: electronic medical education and web-based medical education. a number of well-known medical institutions, such as harvard and johns hopkins used a wide range of cyberspace capabilities to increase their competitiveness. researchers have expressed that cyberspace will change he...