Evaluation of Hospital Information Systems in Selected Hospitals of Iran

摘要

Due to the information systems objectives, and to avoid duplication and to help improve care quality andreduce cost, it is necessary to conduct continuous evaluation to determine how to achieve these goals. Thisstudy was performed using evaluation indices of hospital Information systems (HIS) in selected hospitals ofIran. In this article organizational and server components of hospital information systems in selectedhospitals are being assessed.This research is a descriptive cross – sectional study. The study population consisted of the informationsystem of Shohaday Tajrish, Khatamolanbiya, Imam Khomeini and Milad Hospital. Data collecting toolswere checklist of hospital information system Evaluation Index, which completed with direct observationand interviews with users. Data analyzed by statistics software SPSS, and presented as statistical tablesand graphs.In the studied hospitals, although the most of the organizational components subgroups and hospitalinformation system server components has been set up and used but pharmacy information system, decisionsupport systems, communication services and telemedicine services hadn`t been set up fully in thehospitals. Currently most subtypes of organizational components and hospital information system servercomponents were fully in the designed software and considering all fields in 5 hospitals.