Health Information management
neda borhani moghani; Marziyhe Meraji; Elaheh Houshmand; Somayeh Fazaeli; Marjan Vedjani; Zahra Ebnehosseni
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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 ...
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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.
Asadollah Shams; Mojgan Mosaddegh; Elham Asadi; Saeed Afrough
Volume 9, Issue 7 , December 2012, , Pages 1081-1086
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Introduction: Nowadays, more than ever we have forgotten that solving health problems depends uponwhat people should do for themselves. Helping people is a vital issue along with intelligent healthservices, against treatment services which make people depended, and are high-cost and less effective.The ...
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Introduction: Nowadays, more than ever we have forgotten that solving health problems depends uponwhat people should do for themselves. Helping people is a vital issue along with intelligent healthservices, against treatment services which make people depended, and are high-cost and less effective.The aim of the present study was to assess the philosophical principles of the prevention in primary healthcare (PHC) and the knowledge and belief of the directors of the health care in this regard.Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical survey. Research tools was a researcher-made questionnaire withthree types of basic, knowledge and attitude questions about 9 philosophical principles of PHC. Validity andreliability were approved by experts and Cronbach’s alpha (84%), repectively. Study population included384 individuals of top, middle and executive managers of Isfahan, Iran Health Institutions in 2002. Student’st-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson’s correlation tests were used.Results: The highest mean knowledge score of the nine philosophical principles of PHC belonged to "loveand motivation" (98.3 ± 41.1) and the lowest philosophical dimension score belonged to "equality andjustice" (65.7 ± 29.2). The highest average score of philosophical attitude was in "coordinate betweensection” (81.5 ± 23.0) and the lowest philosophical dimension belonged to "equality" (49.1 ± 12.8).Conclusion: The average score for all the categories of knowledge management was a little higher than80. The mean attitude score was 65. This result was not good for the system; because the attitude ofmanagers plays a key role in the run up to the principles of PHC.
