Mehdi Kahouei; Fahimeh Salari; Saideh Arghandi Pour; Raheleh Akhbari; Samira Gholi Zadeh
Volume 11, Issue 2 , July 2014, , Pages 149-157
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Introduction: Appropriate information is essential to plan and to implement clinical governance. This question is posed that what is hospital staff’ expectations of information. This study was conducted to evaluate hospital staff’s expectations of information in clinical governance. ...
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Introduction: Appropriate information is essential to plan and to implement clinical governance. This question is posed that what is hospital staff’ expectations of information. This study was conducted to evaluate hospital staff’s expectations of information in clinical governance. Methods: This descriptive - analytical study was performed on 258 practitioners of affiliated hospitals of Semnan University of medical sciences and social security organization in 2012. Data collection instrument was a valid and reliable questionnaire which was confirmed by experts and was measured its reliability by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Then it was distributed among the population. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis in SPSS 16. Results: The findings showed 71.7% of staff had attended training course of clinical governance. 58.6% chose clinical information as a first priority and 53.3% selected managerial information as the fourth priority in clinical governance. 3.6% chose information technology and informatics center as a first priority in the implementation of clinical governance. Conclusion: The results showed although most of the population had passed clinical governance course but it seems essential contents have not been provided in relation to the role of information in clinical governance in the course. These results can create an opportunity for experts in information technology and health information managers to show, more than ever, the role of information departments in the improvement of clinical governance. Keywords: Personnel; Hospitals; Information; Clinical Governance
Mahdi Kahouei; Mohsen Soleimani; Soheila Qazvi; Seifollah Alaei
Volume 4, Issue 2 , September 2007
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AbstractIntroduction: The appropriate use of the hospital information computer networks and its acceptance by the health care personnel can improve the quality of health care services and decrease the expenses. This study investigated the views, attitudes and satisfaction of the nurses and clinical personnel ...
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AbstractIntroduction: The appropriate use of the hospital information computer networks and its acceptance by the health care personnel can improve the quality of health care services and decrease the expenses. This study investigated the views, attitudes and satisfaction of the nurses and clinical personnel about the effectiveness of hospital information system on some medical activities.Methods: This analytical study investigated the behavior, satisfaction and attitudes of 120 nurses, auxiliary nurses and secretaries working in the outpatients and admitting wards of the educational and medical center of Amir al-momenin in Semnan about the effectiveness of hospital information system on some of the caring activities during 2006 to 2007. Data were collected by a questionnaire whose reliability and validity were approved by investigating in scientific texts and test-retest. The questionnaire was filled by the personnel who had more than 3 years working experience. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics method with p=0.05.Results: Most of the personnel (80%) were using their wards' computer systems several times a day. They agreed with availability of appropriate health care information (55%), reduction of errors (45.8%), better supervision on patients' treatment process (28%), and improvement of the treatment results by using information systems (15%). These personnel believed that information system made it easier to search prescribed medicines (50%), and to find the patients difficulties (20%). In general, 52 subjects were satisfied by the effectiveness of system in some health care activities of the clinical wards and a few (4) were completely satisfied by that. There was a significant relation between the personnel satisfaction with HIS effectiveness on the patient caring process and the satisfaction with user-friendliness of the systems and the medical ward (p<0.05).Conclusion: The results showed that less than half of the clinical wards personnel were relatively satisfied with the effectiveness of HIS on the patients caring activities. To make this system more effective on the patients health care activities, the system should be in harmony with the dynamic nature of health care process. Therefore, it is recommended to use advanced hardware systems such as PDAs and laptops and voice recognition softwares to facilitate data entry in the clinical wards, as well as developing legal methods to prevent redundancy in nurses' daily activities.Keywords: Hospital Information systems; Computer systems; Nursing process; Nursing care; Nurses
