Health Information management
Mohammad Reza Soleymani; Hasan Ashrafi-rizi
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AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic is one of the fundamental challenges of the personal and professional life of people all over the world, which requires accurate and fast policy making and planning. So, With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts in scientific environments tried to investigate the ...
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AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic is one of the fundamental challenges of the personal and professional life of people all over the world, which requires accurate and fast policy making and planning. So, With the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts in scientific environments tried to investigate the aspects of this disease in the shortest possible time. Therefore, in many universities of medical sciences (Iran), with the aim of presenting the results of researches, review process was facilitated. Therefore, the speed in reviewing, publishing and using the results of research conducted during Covid-19 pandemic, raises the concern especially by policymakers and even the general public that how reliable and valuable are these findings? The purpose of this article was to identifying the challenges of the scientific works published in this period in terms of content, methodology and the methods of approving and publishing them.Keywords: Scientific Works, Covid-19, Review Process, Challenges
Azra Daei; Sona Imani-Tayebi; Shahin Mojiri; Seyyed Saeed Mousavifar; Mohammad Reza Soleymani
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Introduction: 360-degree feedback seems to be a more comprehensive view of appraising capabilities, behavior, competence, and performance of individuals in the organization than other methods of performance appraisal. This study endeavored to appraise librarians’ performance in Isfahan University of ...
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Introduction: 360-degree feedback seems to be a more comprehensive view of appraising capabilities, behavior, competence, and performance of individuals in the organization than other methods of performance appraisal. This study endeavored to appraise librarians’ performance in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, through 360-degree feedback.Methods: This study conducted by a survey-analysis methodology. The population consisted of 43 librarians, 43 superiors, 43 colleagues, and 80 users; accordingly, census sampling method was employed. Each librarian was assessed by one supervisor, all colleagues, two users, and a self-assessment questionnaire was filled by each librarian. The data was collected by pre-prepared questionnaires by Farajpahlou et al. To analyze the data. This study employed the Student's t, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Duncan, analysis of variance tests.Results: Librarians’ performance in total (4.37), and status of their performance in moral-value (4.47), functional (4.37), and process (4.34) skills were higher than average level. There was no significant difference between the results of four groups in the moral-value index and functional skills, but there was a significant difference between the users and other assessors in the process skills.Conclusion: Given the low mean in the process index, it seems necessary to take effective steps by librarians to improve communication with users. These results could be used by managers and librarians to identify the strengths and weaknesses of librarians’ performance.
Mitra Hoomanirad; Mohammad Reza Soleymani
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was to determine the challenges of writing and publishing of health scientific articles from the viewpoint of the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.Methods: In this survey, the statistical population consisted of 250 faculty ...
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was to determine the challenges of writing and publishing of health scientific articles from the viewpoint of the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.Methods: In this survey, the statistical population consisted of 250 faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences who were selected using stratified random sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Its validity confirmed by experienced researchers, and its reliability was determined to be 0.98, using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed using one-sample t test.Results: Among 6 categories, professional, personal, and facility challenges with mean of 3.05, 3.00, and 2.98 were very important. However, socio-cultural challenge with mean of 2.41 was the least important place.Conclusion: The research policymakers in Iran's universities of medical sciences can consider this challenges, and help to establish evidence-based practice and evidence-based medicine.
Hassan Ashrafi-Rizi; Mohammadreza Soleymani; Mohammadreza Hashemian
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Research is considered as an important investment for promoting innovation, knowledge development and economic development of countries. The aim of this study was to determine the economic barriers of health research in Iran. This was a narrative review. The data was collected through studying the articles ...
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Research is considered as an important investment for promoting innovation, knowledge development and economic development of countries. The aim of this study was to determine the economic barriers of health research in Iran. This was a narrative review. The data was collected through studying the articles published on information databases like Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, SID, Magiran, and PubMed. The keywords used in this research included "Barriers to Research", "Research”, “Economics", "Research Market" "Health" and other similar keywords. The study of economic barriers of health researchers showed that four factors including lack of research funding, lower investment in research, inadequate relationship with industry, and the non-commercialization of research results are considered as economic barriers in health research. Considering the new approaches of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in the field of health research, it is necessary to attract funds from outside universities, strengthen the relationship between industry and academic sectors, improve the quality of researches, and increase commercialization of research results.
Mohammadreza Soleymani; Shahin Mojiri; Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi
Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi; Niloofar Hodhodinezhad; Leila Shahrzadi; Mohammadreza Soleymani
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, , Pages 438-444
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Access to valid and new health information as well as capabilities of medical librarians has highlighted their presence in various areas of health. The aim of the present study was to identify the new roles and services of medical librarians in the field of health. This narrative review was conducted ...
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Access to valid and new health information as well as capabilities of medical librarians has highlighted their presence in various areas of health. The aim of the present study was to identify the new roles and services of medical librarians in the field of health. This narrative review was conducted in 2014-2016. The Data was collected through studying the articles published on information databases like Magiran, SID, Noormags, PubMed, Science Direct, Emerald, and Web of Science during the past 15 years (2002 to 2016). The keywords used in this search included "medical librarian", "medical librarianship", "clinical librarian", "roles", "services", and other similar keywords. The new roles and services of librarians were identified after studying and evaluating the contents of the articles. The results showed that the areas of medical librarians’ activities go beyond libraries and according to their abilities and capabilities, they can offer their new services such as media literacy, information literacy, health literacy, health scientometrics, health information services, clinical services, health research services, and design and development of health information retrieval systems. In framework of their new roles and activities, medical librarians should satisfy patients and their families, medical staff, and students and faculty members in the field of health information.
Mohammad Reza Soleymani
Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 109-123
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Undoubtedly, knowledge and information play important roles in the information society. They are considered as the assets or capitals. Since the lack of access to reliable information in all fields, especially health area, imposes high costs, so information has become the center of economists’ ...
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Undoubtedly, knowledge and information play important roles in the information society. They are considered as the assets or capitals. Since the lack of access to reliable information in all fields, especially health area, imposes high costs, so information has become the center of economists’ debates, forming a new study field called "information economy". On the other hand, nowadays, libraries and information centers as one of the main providers of information and information services are encountered with many economic challenges to solve which they need a correct understanding from economic features of information and information services. Since economic analyses of information goods and services differ with standard economic analyses, this paper endeavors first to examine information as economic goods. Then, it states unique features of the information; and finally, it explores common approaches for pricing such goods and services as well as the challenges in receiving costs by the libraries and information centers. Key words: Information Services; Pricing; Economics
