A comparative study of interagency communications and information exchange in disaster response among selected countries.

Background: Effective communications and secure information exchange platforms during disasters and emergencies are among the significant factors in inclusive disaster management and can radically contribute to better preparedness, efficient and timely responsiveness, and, finally, maximal reduction of damages and fatalities. The present study was to compare communications and information exchange among disaster response organizations in selected countries.

Materials And Method: This applied research, carried out in 2022, was a qualitative descriptive-comparative study pursuing a content analysis approach.

Extracting the Factors Affecting the Survival Rate of Trauma Patients Using Data Mining Techniques on a National Trauma Registry.

Introduction: Thousands of people die due to trauma all over the world every day, which leaves adverse effects on families and the society. The main objective of this study was to identify the factors affecting the mortality of trauma patients using data mining techniques.

Methods: The present study includes six parts: data gathering, data preparation, target attributes specification, data balancing, evaluation criteria, and applied techniques.

Disaster planning approaches in Iran's health system: A mixed-methods study.

Background: Disaster planning and management pose a serious challenge to most countries. These challenges point to insufficient planning to deal with these events. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the methods and characteristics of the decision-making approaches in these events.

Information challenges of COVID-19: A qualitative research.

Background: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education set up a 24-h call center, i.e., Center 4030, to mitigate people's worries and anxieties, create composure, increase people's trust, and answer their questions.

The role of virtual social networks in shaping people's attitudes toward COVID-19 in Iran.

Background: The widespread occurrence of COVID-19 has caused people to seek information from various sources such as virtual social networks, which can positively or negatively affect one's mental status. In this article, we present the role of virtual social networks in shaping people's attitudes toward COVID-19 in Iran.

Materials And Methods: This is an applied descriptive study, in which 1010 users of virtual social networks were surveyed through an electronic questionnaire.

Assessing the educational services quality of health information technology students.

Introduction: Responsibility in the higher educational system requires the universities to be sensitive on students' needs and expectations. The purpose of the present study was to examine the educational service quality among health information technology (HIT) students in Isfahan University of Medical Science based on the SERVQUAL model.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study and carried out at the Management and Medical Information Sciences faculty of IUMS in 2018.

Designing a model of patient tracking system for natural disaster in Iran.

Context: Disaster patient tracking consists of identifying and registering patients, recording data on their medical conditions, settings priorities for evacuation of scene, locating the patients from scene to health care centers and then till completion of treatment and discharge.

Aim: The aim of this study was to design a model of patient tracking system for natural disaster in Iran.

Materials And Methods: This applied study was conducted in two steps in 2016.

Patient tracking in earthquake emergency response in Iran: A qualitative study.

Background: After a disaster, all victims have to be rapidly and accurately identified for locating, tracking and regulating them. The purpose of this study was to summarize people's experiences that how the patients were tracked in past earthquake disasters in Iran.

Methods: A qualitative study was carried out in 2015.

Overcrowding in emergency departments: A review of strategies to decrease future challenges.

Emergency departments (EDs) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. The goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in EDs. In this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles.

The study of inpatient medical records on hospital deductions: An interventional study.

Background: The rate of hospital deductions is a commonly cited concern among teaching hospitals in Iran. The objective of the present study is to access the effect of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of inpatient medical records on deductions and identifying the major resources of deductions. There are currently no published interventional studies that have investigated this issue quantitatively.

Recognition of medical errors' reporting system dimensions in educational hospitals.

Introduction And Objective: Nowadays medical errors are one of the serious issues in the health-care system and carry to account of the patient's safety threat. The most important step for achieving safety promotion is identifying errors and their causes in order to recognize, correct and omit them. Concerning about repeating medical errors and harms, which were received via theses errors concluded to designing and establishing medical error reporting systems for hospitals and centers that are presenting therapeutic services.

Evaluation of organizational maturity based on people capacity maturity model in medical record wards of Iranian hospitals.

Context: People capacity maturity model (PCMM) is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities.

Aims: The aim of this model's application is to increase people ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the talents needed to organizational continuous improvement.

Settings And Design: In this study, we used the PCMM for investigation of organizational maturity level in medical record departments of governmental hospitals and determination strengths and weaknesses of their staff capabilities.

Users' acceptance and attitude in regarding electronic medical record at central polyclinic of oil industry in Isfahan, Iran.

Introduction: Simultaneous with the rapid changes in the technology and information systems, hospitals interest in using them. One of the most common systems in hospitals is electronic medical record (EMR) whose one of uses is providing better health care quality via health information technology. Prior to its use, attempts should be put to identifying factors affecting the acceptance, attitude and utilizing of this technology.

External Evaluation of Four Hospitals According to Patient-centred Care Standards.

Introduction: Hospital accreditation is a multi-factorial issue. The aim of the current study was to accredit social security organization and university hospitals (that certificated by ISO 9001-2008) in Isfahan, the second largest city of Iran, based on Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation standards.

Methods: Accreditation of four hospitals was evaluated and compared in a cross-sectional study.

Investigation of retention and destruction process of medical records in the hospitals and codifying appropriate guidelines.

Introduction: One of the major issues in hospitals is the period for which the medical records are retained. Health information management professionals traditionally have performed retention and destruction functions using all media, including paper, images, optical disk, microfilm, DVD, and CD-ROM. Health information management departments must maintain a specific program to retain and destruct the records.

Medical records department and balanced scorecard approach.

Context: The Medical Records Department (MRD) is an important source for evaluating and planning of healthcare services; therefore, hospital managers should improve their performance not only in the short-term but also in the long-term plans. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a tool in the management system that enables organizations to correct operational functions and provides feedback around both the internal processes and the external outcomes, in order to improve strategic performance and outcomes continuously.

Aims: The main goal of this study was to assess the MRD performance with BSC approach in a hospital.

Patient access to electronic health record: a comparative study on laws, policies and procedures in selected countries.

Introduction: The e-health system must have the capability of patient access to electronic health record. The advantage of access to their record lets them have better understanding of their condition and treatment. It can also raise the reliability of consistency and correctness of data in health care system.

Electronic medical record in central polyclinic of isfahan oil industry: a case study based on technology acceptance model.

Introduction: Today, health information technologies are base of health services and Electronic Medical Record is one of them. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) on EMR at Central Polyclinic Oil Industry that is a pioneer in implementation of EMR in Isfahan.

Methods: This study was an applied and analytical survey that it was done at the Central Polyclinic Oil Industry.

E-health implementation challenges in Iranian medical centers: a qualitative study in Iran.

Background: E-health encompasses a wide scope and has excellent potential to grow in the future. Growing numbers of experts believe that e-health will fuel the next breakthroughs in health system improvements throughout the world. There is frequent evidence that largely indicates failures or unsustainable e-health implementations in different countries for different reasons.

A comparative study of laws and procedures pertaining to the medical records retention in selected countries.

Introduction: The health record serves several purposes and must be retained to meet those purposes. These varied purposes influence how long health records must be kept, or their retention period.

Aim: Present study aimed to recognize laws and procedures pertaining to retention of health records in selected countries and provide a proposed guideline for Iran.

Organic-inorganic nanocomposites of methylcellulose as a precursor of nanocrystalline ZnO layers.

In this article, we present a sol-gel method to synthesize hybrid nanocomposite films of Zinc oxide (ZnO)/methylcellulose (MC) on microscope glass slides. The zinc/MC solutions were prepared, using different weight ratios of zinc acetate dihydrate to MC, in the presence of acetic acid. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) investigation of the Zn sol/MC mixture showed coordinating interaction between zinc ions and MC.

Medical record information disclosure laws and policies among selected countries; a comparative study.

Background: Hospitals have responsibility for responding to legitimate demands for release of health information while protecting the confidentiality of the patient health records. There have always been challenges concerning medical records confidentiality and their disclosure and release type in medical record departments. This study investigated and compared laws and policies of disclosure of health information in Iran and selected countries and tried to identify the differences and the similarities between them.