Letter to Editor
Health Information management
Peyman Adibi; Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi; Mohammadreza Hashemian
Abstract
Reliable information plays an important role in the health system. Nevertheless, sometimes the society is faced with distortion of facts, manipulation of information, sharing of information without understanding its consequences, and dissemination of fake news, which are types of information disorders. ...
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Reliable information plays an important role in the health system. Nevertheless, sometimes the society is faced with distortion of facts, manipulation of information, sharing of information without understanding its consequences, and dissemination of fake news, which are types of information disorders. Wardle and Derakhshan classified information disorders into three categories: "Misinformation", "Disinformation" and "Malinformation" (1).Unlike disinformation that is based on completely false information, health malinformation uses valid and acceptable medical information but subject to certain conditions or relatively accurate health information. This information is presented without considering the original context or in an incorrect context to lead people who encounter it to false or misleading impressions and conclusions. In fact, malinformation is reconfigured true information. When background or context, such as time, place, or privacy, is not considered, it can create a perception that conflicts with reality and harm individuals, organizations, and collective understanding (2). The important point in the circulation of health malinformation is the intention of the sender of the information or message, which is done intentionally and with malicious intent in order to cause real harm or the threat of real harm to a person, organization or country. Therefore, in promoting malinformation, the person's intention to harm is certain, not accidental, which can be harmful and even dangerous for others, and at the same time, it has a criminal aspect (3).
Original Article
Health Information management
neda borhani moghani; Marziyhe Meraji; Elaheh Houshmand; Somayeh Fazaeli; Marjan Vedjani; Zahra Ebnehosseni
Abstract
Introduction: Considering the beginning of the implementation of electronic prescribing in the country, the present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the challenges during the implementation of electronic prescribing.Research method: This study was conducted using a qualitative method through ...
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Introduction: Considering the beginning of the implementation of electronic prescribing in the country, the present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the challenges during the implementation of electronic prescribing.Research method: This study was conducted using a qualitative method through interviews with physicians working in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 1401. The participants were selected by purposive sampling, after conducting three in-depth interviews, interview questions were extracted. After the semi-structured interviews were conducted, they were recorded and implemented, in order to analyze them, content analysis method and MAXQDA version 10 software were used.Finding: In this study, the challenges were categorized into two main categories, including the organizational category and the infrastructure category. organizational challenges; Challenges related to insurance, referral of patients, education and information to beneficiaries, monitoring and infrastructure challenges; infrastructure, user interface and database. The main challenges of implementing electronic prescribing were related to the outage and slowness of systems and the Internet and the existence of multiple systems for insurances.Conclusion: the infrastructure challenges which are among the important obstacles in the path of the full implementation of the electronic prescribing plan should be resolved, in order to improve the implementation problems, the continuous monitoring of the prescribing systems should be considered and the results should be applied immediately, as It is recommended to reform infrastructures, integrate insurance systems, use electronic signatures and electronic version standards, and provide practical training.
Original Article
Health Information management
Saba Paydar; GholamAli Reisi Ardali; Hossein Raeisi
Abstract
Introduction: Today, hospitals face challenges such as overcrowding in the emergency ward and increased chaos and disruption in staff work, which leads to increased patient dissatisfaction. With the advancement of artificial intelligence and the expansion of data mining, predicting patient admission ...
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Introduction: Today, hospitals face challenges such as overcrowding in the emergency ward and increased chaos and disruption in staff work, which leads to increased patient dissatisfaction. With the advancement of artificial intelligence and the expansion of data mining, predicting patient admission has become important. This study endeavors to predict patient admission in the emergency department of Imam Ali Hospital in Shahrekord.Methods: In this study, 2180 patient records from the emergency ward of the hospital were examined. Initial patient information, including personal details, vital signs, and triage level which were recorded by nurses, were extracted. Using pairwise comparison matrix, the effective features were selected by experts. Then, using naive Bayes, decision tree, random forest, and support vector machine algorithms, the data were classified.Results: Out of the 15 collected features, 9 features were selected by experts, and the results revealed that the random forest algorithm had the good performance in predicting patient admission in this case study, with an accuracy of 92/2%.Conclusion: The results indicated that the accuracy of machine learning models increases with the use of expert opinions, and the random forest algorithm can predict patients' admission with high accuracy in this case study.v
Original Article(s)
Health Information management
sepideh rezaei; Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini; Khalil Alimohammadzadeh
Abstract
University of Medical SciencesIntroduction: Daily increase in medical errors has caused a lot of human and financial losses to the health system, which can be caused by the lack of appropriate management of these errors and investigation of their causes. In order to help control them, the present study ...
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University of Medical SciencesIntroduction: Daily increase in medical errors has caused a lot of human and financial losses to the health system, which can be caused by the lack of appropriate management of these errors and investigation of their causes. In order to help control them, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of cybernetic management on medical errors.Methods: The applied study was a descriptive-correlation survey. the sample consisted of doctors and nurses of four selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were formed in 1402 and finally 170 questionnaires and checklists were collected. Data collection tools were Ghorbanzadeh questionnaire and SHERPA checklist. To analysis data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used and analyzed with SPSS-24 software.Results: The findings of the research showed that there is a significant relationship between cybernetic management and medical errors, and 9% of the changes in the criterion variable, cybernetic management, can be explained by the variables of medical errors. Also, cybernetic management has an effect on communication errors (p-value=0.014), functional (p-value=0.009), revision (p-value=0.011) and recovery (p-value=0.001) and on selection errors (p-value=0.769) has no effect.Conclusion: The results showed that medical errors were considerably reduced by using cybernetic management. In addition, the implementation of cybernetic features at different stages of errors can have a positive effect on hospital resources and save patients' lives.Key words: cybernetic management; medical errors
Original Article
Health Information management
Najmeh Nazeri; Ali Shabani; Mostafa Hossini Golkar; Alireza Noruzi
Abstract
Introduction: Today, in the field of medical sciences, research evaluation places greater emphasis on assessing social impact. To this end, this research endeavors to identify the components of the social impact model for medical research application.
Methods: This research conducted a systematic review ...
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Introduction: Today, in the field of medical sciences, research evaluation places greater emphasis on assessing social impact. To this end, this research endeavors to identify the components of the social impact model for medical research application.
Methods: This research conducted a systematic review and analysis of previous studies. The research examined 8 Persian and 29 English sources on the social impact of medical research application. This research was carried out through a meta-synthesis approach. The time frame spans from 1990 to June 2022 for English and Persian sources up to the time of conducting the research. From the available sources, 37 were selected and analyzed. The Cohen's Kappa expert agreement coefficient was used to validate the results. Based on these findings, the researcher proceeded to present a conceptual framework that includes key concepts and categories from the reviewed sources.
Results: Analysis of the conducted studies revealed 147 codes across 24 concepts, 12 categories, and 6 themes. These themes encompass various aspects of knowledge, including knowledge governance, knowledge production and exchange, knowledge dissemination and transfer, knowledge mobilization, popularization of knowledge, and knowledge utilization.
Conclusion: The conceptual model of the social impact of medical research application endeavors to reveal the processes of knowledge governance and knowledge production and exchange. It begins with the interactive model, emphasizing relational capital and fostering closer collaboration between researchers and policy makers. This collective approach extends to industry and government investment in research. The overall goal is to enhance research systems, ensuring they meet society’s needs by facilitating knowledge transfer and mobilization. Two key strategies are employed, namely the structure of formal and informal exchange networks, and the utilization of intermediaries.
Original Article
Health Information management
Maryam Okhovati; Najmeh Izadifar
Abstract
Introduction: Maintaining the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy requires knowledge of pregnancy care. This study endeavors to investigate the role of online news and information search skills in the area of pregnancy of pregnant women in Kohnouj in improving their health information search ...
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Introduction: Maintaining the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy requires knowledge of pregnancy care. This study endeavors to investigate the role of online news and information search skills in the area of pregnancy of pregnant women in Kohnouj in improving their health information search behavior during pregnancy.Methods: This research is a semi-experimental type (pre-test-post-test with a control group). The statistical population of the research is pregnant women in the Kohnuj. The sample was 48 pregnant women who were randomly selected and divided into two intervention and control groups. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its Cronbach's alpha coefficient was equal to 0.828.Results: The mean scores of mothers' health literacy increased slightly in the control group after educational interventions, but the increase was higher in the intervention group. Besides, information search skills after educational interventions in the control group increased little, but in the intervention group, this increase was high. In other words, teaching information search skills to mothers in the intervention group has been effective in increasing and improving their health information search skills in the field of pregnancy.Conclusion: Information search skills training had a positive effect on increasing the level of awareness of pregnant women to take care of themselves and the fetus. As such, it led to the improvement of their search for health information in the field of pregnancy during the pregnancy period.
مقاله مروری نقلی
Health Information management
elham yazdani; Mohammad Mazaheri; Firoozeh Zare Farashbandi; Alireza Rahimi; Ahmad Papi
Abstract
Introduction: Stakeholders in the medical field are faced with important and common information issues, the solution of which requires the presence of accurate, valid, and reliable information that can be obtained and used in the short time. This study endeavors to review the scientific research of the ...
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Introduction: Stakeholders in the medical field are faced with important and common information issues, the solution of which requires the presence of accurate, valid, and reliable information that can be obtained and used in the short time. This study endeavors to review the scientific research of the information needs of the medical field.Methods: This study study was conducted as a domain review in internal and external databases without time limit. The total number of retrieved articles was 1283 records. After content analysis and removal of non-useful items and those whose full text was not possible, 54 articles and theses were finally reviewed. The obtained articles were categorized, analyzed, and coded through descriptive and content analysis methods.Results: The important reasons for students' information needs were educational assignments; as for faculty members, updating information, among nurses and physicians, educational needs; and among the patients, self-care needs. While the important information needs among students and faculty members were educational needs and the needs among medical professionals and patients were drug information. The important obstacles to meeting the information needs of students and faculty members were respectively the lack of access to the Internet and the lack of sharing online resources. The lack of information seeking skills and the lack of access to network equipment were the important obstacles to meet the information needs of nurses, physicians and patients, respectively.Conclusion: Educational needs and knowledge updating are the important reasons for creating information needs. To meet the needs, sharing databases, enriching library resources, and providing network equipment for access should be prioritized.
بیان تجربه
Health Information management
Hamed Mirlohi; Arash Najimi
Abstract
Webometrics ranking, an international evaluation system, employs a research-based approach to assess and rank university websites twice a year. Initiated in 2004, this ranking system currently evaluates over 31,000 institutions from approximately 200 countries. The methodology employed in this ranking, ...
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Webometrics ranking, an international evaluation system, employs a research-based approach to assess and rank university websites twice a year. Initiated in 2004, this ranking system currently evaluates over 31,000 institutions from approximately 200 countries. The methodology employed in this ranking, along with other requisite data, is regularly updated and publicly accessible on the Webometrics website. Enhancing the quality and quantity of content constitutes the most effective strategy for improving ranking, while altering an institution's website domain represents the least effective strategy, potentially leading to a significant decline in ranking. In the most recent ranking preceding this study, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences secured 7th place among Iranian medical universities and 14th place overall in the July 2023 ranking. This study, undertaken with the aim of elevating the university's position within a one-month timeframe, was implemented with the assistance of the university's webometrics committee.
