introduction: implementation of hospital information system (his) depends on the complete organizational change in which most effective factors need to be considered. since the most important factor is human resources, training, survey, information and acceptance of the staff toward the his are also essential issues. we investigated the implementation of his in imam khomeini hospital. methods: ...

The increasing availability of laboratory information management modules within enterprise electronic health record solutions has resulted in some institutional administrators deciding which laboratory information system will be used to manage workflow within the laboratory, often with minimal input from the pathologists. This article aims to educate pathologists on many of the issues and impli...

Clinical studies and trials require accessibility of large amounts of high-quality information in a timely manner, often daily. The integrated application of information technologies can greatly improve quality control as well as facilitate compliance with established standards such as Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). We have customized and implemented a number o...

The general public has developed a lovehate relationship with computers. More time is wasted trying to make them work than is saved using them. To operate them, there is a depen­ dency on a cadre of individuals who speak strange languages and are not particularly responsive to the user’s needs. The prevail­ ing opinion is tha t this situation is ready for change. Com puters are becoming smaller...

Nagoya University Hospital has developed a new, comprehensive computerized hospital administration system since April 1992. In the present study, a user's evaluation questionnaire survey on the order entry system revealed that the improvements at the human interface level were appreciated by some respondents, but not all users felt the human interface provided, adequately meets their needs. Ano...

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INTRODUCTION In the process of quality assurance of the measured values of the clinical laboratory, one of the purposes is to perform the validation of patients' measured values in the most objective way. This validation process is called plausibility control which may be defined as the set of procedures used to decide if a patient's measured value is valid according to established clinical and...

Decision support computer technology (DST) embedded in laboratory or hospital information systems has great potential but has rarely been successful. Through studying a pharmacokinetic program that automatically extracted data without requiring manual data entry, we have identified several barriers to the successful implementation of DST. Manual data entry is a major barrier, but so is the entr...

Timely surveillance of enteric diseases is necessary to identify and control cases and outbreaks. Our objective was to evaluate the timeliness of enteric disease surveillance in British Columbia, Canada, compare these results to other settings, and recommend improvements. In 2012 and 2013, information was collected from case report forms and laboratory information systems on 2615 Salmonella, sh...