Utilization of health care indicators in the monitoring of health system performance has become increasingly important in the last decades. The expansion of the public National Health System, Sistema Unico de Saúde/SUS, growth of the private health sector and implementation of specific types of health care regulation models stimulated the utilization of indicators in the evaluation of hospital ...

AIMS To explore the feasibility of recruiting surgical oncology patients and implementing a surgical integrated discharge (SID) programme led by advanced practice providers (APP). BACKGROUND Burden of illness and complexity of treatment regimen makes it challenging for surgical oncology patients to participate in research. Surgical oncology nurses may have the necessary expertise to overcome ...

Evaluating hospital information systems leads to the improvement and devotion based on the users' needs, especially the medical records section users in hospitals, which are in contact with this system from the moment the patient enters the hospital until his/ her release and after that. The present research aimed to evaluate the hospital information systems from the point of view of the medica...

INTRODUCTION The Chronicity Prevention and Care Programme set up by the Health Plan for Catalonia 2011-2015 has been an outstanding and excellent opportunity to create a new integrated care model in Catalonia. People with chronic conditions require major changes and transformation within the current health and social system. The new and gradual context of ageing, increase in the number of chron...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key performance indicators for hospital information systems (HIS) that can be used for HIS benchmarking. METHODS A Delphi survey with one qualitative and two quantitative rounds. Forty-four HIS experts from health care IT practice and academia participated in all three rounds. RESULTS Seventy-seven performance indicators were identified and organized into eight ca...

BACKGROUND Delayed patient recruitment is a common problem in clinical studies. Hospital information systems (HIS) contain data items relevant for inclusion or exclusion criteria of these studies. PURPOSE We developed and assessed a system to support patient recruitment using HIS data. METHODS We developed a workflow integrated in our HIS to notify study physicians about potential trial sub...

OBJECTIVES This study presents the information system for Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH), evaluates its performance qualitatively, and conducts economic analysis. METHODS Information system for PNUH was designed by component-based development and developed by internet technologies. Order Communication System, Electronic Medical Record, and Clinical Decision Support System were newl...

Decision support computer technology (DST) embedded in laboratory or hospital information systems has great potential but has rarely been successful. Through studying a pharmacokinetic program that automatically extracted data without requiring manual data entry, we have identified several barriers to the successful implementation of DST. Manual data entry is a major barrier, but so is the entr...

BACKGROUND Today, the use of information systems in health environments, like any other fields, is necessary and organizational managers are convinced to use these systems. However, managers' satisfaction is not the only factor in successfully implementing these systems and failed information technology projects (IT) are reported despite the consent of the directors. Therefore, this study aims ...

AIM To estimate the attitudes of hospital nurses towards computers and the influence of gender, age, education, and computer usage on these attitudes. METHODS The study was conducted in two Croatian hospitals where integrated hospital information system is being implemented. There were 1,081 nurses surveyed by an anonymous questionnaire consisting of 8 questions about demographic data, educat...