Health information technology in ambulatory care in a developing country
| Autor: | Afsane Zamani, Mehdi Kahouei, Zahra Ganji, Ghasem Deimazar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Telemedicine lcsh:R5-920 020205 medical informatics Health information technology business.industry Electronic health record Ambulatory care Information technology Developing country 02 engineering and technology Health informatics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Family medicine 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Original Article 030212 general & internal medicine business lcsh:Medicine (General) Health department |
| Zdroj: | Electronic Physician, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 6319-6326 (2018) Electronic Physician |
| ISSN: | 2008-5842 |
| Popis: | Background: Physicians need to apply new technologies in ambulatory care. At present, with regard to the extended use of information technology in other departments in Iran it has yet to be considerably developed by physicians and clinical technicians in the health department. Objective: To determine the rate of use of health information technology in the clinics of specialist- and subspecialist physicians in Semnan city, Iran. Methods: This was a 2016 cross-sectional study conducted in physicians’ offices of Semnan city in Iran. All physicians’ offices in Semnan (130) were studied in this research. A researcher made and Likert-type questionnaire was designed, and consisted of two sections: the first section included demographic items and the second section consisted of four subscales (telemedicine, patient's safety, electronic patient record, and electronic communications). In order to determine the validity, the primary questionnaire was reviewed by one medical informatics- and two health information management experts from Semnan University of Medical Sciences. Utilizing the experts’ suggestions, the questionnaire was rewritten and became more focused. Then the questionnaire was piloted on forty participants, randomly selected from different physicians’ offices. Participants in the pilot study were excluded from the study. Cronbach’s alpha was used to calculate the reliability of the instruments. Finally, SPSS version 16 was used to conduct descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The minimum mean related to the physicians' use of E-mail services for the purpose of communicating with the patients, the physicians' use of computer-aided diagnostics to diagnose the patients' illnesses, and the level of the physicians' access to the electronic medical record of patients in the other treatment centers were 2.01, 3.58, and 1.43 respectively. The maximum mean score was related to the physicians' use of social networks to communicate with other physicians (3.64). The study showed that the physicians used less computerized systems in their clinic for the purpose of managing their patients' safety and there was a significant difference between the mean of the scores (p |
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