Zahra Mastaneh; Lotfolah Mouseli
Volume 9, Issue 4 , September and October 2012, , Pages 465-470
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Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) attempts to update ICD-10 (internationalclassification diseases-10th version) according to the required information of the scientificcommunity. In this study, changes of ICD-10 will be reviewed in updating process.Methods: The data of the present descriptive ...
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Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) attempts to update ICD-10 (internationalclassification diseases-10th version) according to the required information of the scientificcommunity. In this study, changes of ICD-10 will be reviewed in updating process.Methods: The data of the present descriptive study was extracted from the World HealthOrganization website. The data were interpreted based on descriptive statistics after classificationof changes, type of instructions to make change, source of changes, and approved andimplementation date of the changes.Results: Out of 1914 changes occurred in ICD-10 during 1995 and 2009, the greatest changehappened in the third volume with 1249 cases (65.5%). Most of the major changes were in the firstvolume with 264 cases (50.1%) and most of the minor changes were in the second volume with 69cases (49.6%). The majority of the instruction changes were adding an item to the system in everythree volumes. Among the active groups for creating modification, mortality reference group(MRG) had the highest role in the first and second volumes with 107 (20.3%) and 116 cases(83.4%), respectively. Germany with 305 cases (24.4%) in the third volume had the highest role.Conclusion: Maintaining the fluidity of a classification system in the field of health is anenormous and necessary task. This fluidity has occurred in ICD-10 with making significantchanges due to new discoveries in the field of medicine, diagnostic and therapeutic equipmentsand health information subsequently. In Iran, due to the governmental policy to create the Iranianelectronic health records, the updated health classification is further needed.
Zahra Mastaneh; Lotfolah Mouseli
Volume 8, Issue 1 , March and April 2011
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Ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector ...
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Ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector reform. Healthcare reform was set high on the new administration’s agenda with the start of the transition. In the United States after coming on the new government, reforms in the health system were considered largely in the government work programs. The main focus of these reforms is on the use of new information technologies in health information management. This government has described improved health information as a key to expanding healthcare coverage while improving quality and controlling costs. Therefore government was set health information pyramid on seven issues that by implementation of these will be able to achieve the meaningful healthcare reform. Keywords: Organizational Innovation; Health; Information Technology.
Farkhondeh Asadi; Hamid Moghaddasi; Zahra Mastaneh
Volume 6, Issue 1 , March 2009
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Introduction: Hematology section provides valuable information for diagnosis and treatment of patients to improve the health of them. In this regard Hematology Information System led to deliver produced information accurately and timely. Present study aimed to analyze the situation of Hematology Information ...
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Introduction: Hematology section provides valuable information for diagnosis and treatment of patients to improve the health of them. In this regard Hematology Information System led to deliver produced information accurately and timely. Present study aimed to analyze the situation of Hematology Information Systems in hospital laboratories. Methods: In this descriptive study, 13 Hematology Information Systems of hospital laboratories in Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences were assessed. Data were gathered through observing and questioning by checklist and questionnaire tools. The questionaire content validity and its reliability were approved. The analysis of data was conducted based on descriptive analysis. Results: 76.92 percent of Hematology Information Systems were semi-mechanized type and others were mechanized. Dividing data to three groups, results showed averagely patient data elements were in 79.4 percent, sample data elements in 93.85 percent, and test data elements in all of the systems. In 87.5 percent of them, processing of data was done by auto-analyzers. In all of the systems, data were gathered by request forms, labels and computers. Communication networks were not used in 76.92 percent of Hematology Information Systems. Only 15.38 percent of them used the statistical softwares for data analysis. Also, only 23.08 percent of systems were applied the communication networks. 80 percent of systems had workers of data gathering, processing and distributing. Conclusion: Mechanized systems can meet the users' needs better; therefore gathering, processing, and information distributing steps were done correctly. Keywords: Laboratories; Hematology; Laboratory Information Systems.
