Medicine is increasingly practiced through the application of information sciences. Medical informatics deals with optimal information use within bioinformatics, imaging, clinical, and population health domains. Population health informatics plays an important role in that it critically informs practice in each of the other domains. Proper functioning of health care systems requires an advanced...

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INTRODUCTION National Health Information System plays an important role in ensuring timely and reliable access to Health information, which is essential for strategic and operational decisions that improve health, quality and effectiveness of health care. In other words, using the National Health information system you can improve the quality of health data, information and knowledge used to su...

The international literature data report that good information and communication are fundamental components of a therapeutic process. They contribute to improve the patient-health care professional relationship, to facilitate doctor-patient relationships, therapeutic compliance and adherence, and to the informed consent in innovative clinical trials. We report the results of a multicentric nati...

introduction: in spite of the vast improvement in the area of mental health care delivery in this country, very little attention has been given to the mental health registry. considering the absence of an appropriate national mental health registry system in iran, the purpose of the present study was to formulate a preliminary model for mental health registry in iran. methods: in this comparati...

On April 27, 2004, the age of the electronic health records (EHR) in the United States took a major step forward. President Bush called for the creation, at the federal level, of a National Coordinator of Healthcare Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, HHS has appointed the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) to coordinate...

information on nitrate in groundwater resources requires periodic measurements are accurate. despite the measure in some areas due to sensitive social and health community are not reported. therefore, be informed of the status of each area of water quality, modeling is essential. the purpose of this study was the application of artificial neural network method for estimating nitrate and compare...

BACKGROUND Functional national laboratory networks and systems are indispensable to the achievement of global health security targets according to the International Health Regulations. The lack of indicators to measure the functionality of national laboratory network has limited the efficiency of past and current interventions to enhance laboratory capacity in resource-limited-settings. SCORE...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 clearly articulated the central role that health information technology (HIT) standards would play in improving healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency through the meaningful use of certified, standards based, electronic health record (EHR) technology. In 2012, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) asked the Nationwide Health I...

The project “Virtual Health Library” [http://bvs.isciii.es] is the result of technical cooperation between the Pan American Health Organization of the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) through its Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, previously called Regional Library of Medicine (BIREME), [http://www. bireme.br], and other national and regional institutions of...