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Are general practitioners getting the information they need from hospitals to manage their lung cancer patients? A qualitative exploration.
Authors: Rowlands S, Callen J, Westbrook J Abstract The delivery of cancer services is primarily hospital-based; however, General Practitioners (GPs) have a key role to play within the context of a multidisciplinary model of care. In order to fulfill their role in cancer care GPs must receive complete and timely information from appropriate members of the hospital team. The aim of this study was to investigate perceptions of the quality, format and timeliness of the patient information GPs receive from a multidisciplinary hospital-based lung cancer team, and elicit how communication between the team and th...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Simulation studies for the evaluation of health information technologies: experiences and results.
This article presents the results of a controlled simulation study with 50 simulation runs, including ten doctors and five simulation patients, and discusses experiences and lessons learnt while conducting the study. Although the new electronic medication management system showed tendencies to improve medication safety when compared with the standard system, this tendency was not significant. Altogether, five distinct situations were identified where the new medication management system did help to improve medication safety. This simulation study provided a good compromise between internal validity and external validity. H...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Application of case classification in healthcare quality assessment in China.
Authors: Xu P, Li M, Zhang L, Sun Q, Lv S, Lian B, Wei M, Kan Z Abstract The purpose of this study was to build a healthcare quality assessment system with disease category as the basic unit of assessment based on the principles of case classification, and to assess the quality of care in a large hospital in Shanghai. Using the Delphi method, four quality indicators were selected. The data of 124,125 patients discharged from a large general hospital in Shanghai, from October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2007, were used to establish quality indicators estimates for each disease. The data of 51,760 discharged pa...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

UbiMMS: an ubiquitous medication monitoring system based on remote device management methods.
Authors: Pak J, Park K Abstract Medication adherence is one of the most important factors in treating chronic diseases. However, current medication dispensers, which are devices that deliver medication to chronic disease patients according to predetermined schedules, are not equipped with internal remote management functions. Here, we propose a ubiquitous medication monitoring system (UbiMMS) that provides remote functions for medication status transmission, configuration management, software management, and real-time error management. We provide an overview and performance evaluation of the UbiMMS, and sh...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Evaluation of treatment with Oseltamivir during the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic: the problem of incomplete clinical information.
Authors: Hanafi S, Hayatshahi A, Torkamandi H, Javadi MR Abstract During the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic of 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed more than 14,000 deaths globally; this included a death toll of 147 in Iran. In order to evaluate (a) the appropriateness of the Oseltamivir dose through calculation of a patient’s creatinine clearance (CrCl) and (b) the quality of data in the medical charts, we conducted a retrospective study at the Shariati Hospital in Tehran. All admissions to the hospital between the dates 1 October 2009 and 31 January 2010 were evaluated, amounting to a total o...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Information support for health management in regional Sri Lanka: health managers' perspective.
Authors: Ranasinghe KI, Chan T, Yaralagadda P PMID: 22923131 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Geocoding coronial data: tools and techniques to improve data quality.
This article reports on research carried out in Australia at the National Coroners Information System (NCIS). Trends in the use of NCIS location-based data by researchers were identified. The research also aimed to establish the factors that impacted on the quality of geocoded data and the extent of this impact. A systematic analysis of the geocoding process identified source documentation, data cleaning, and software settings as key factors impacting on data quality. Understanding and application of these processes can improve data quality and therefore inform the analysis and interpretation of these data by researchers. ...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Sustainability of health information systems in developing countries: the case of Fiji.
Authors: Soar J, Gow J, Caniogo V Abstract This paper examines the future sustainability of the Fijian Ministry of Health's (MoH) information and communication technology (ITC) system for patient management (PATIS). PATIS was developed with AusAID funding and, as the owner of the system, AusAID has no commercial competence or interest in further development of the system. Thus, the question that arises is: should Fiji adopt a commercially available patient administration system or retain the existing PATIS? In-depth consultations with senior executives and line managers of units that were major users of PA...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Information support for health information management in regional Sri Lanka: health managers' perspectives.
Authors: Ranasinghe KI, Chan T, Yaralagadda P Abstract Good management, supported by accurate, timely and reliable health information, is vital for increasing the effectiveness of Health Information Systems (HIS). When it comes to managing the under-resourced health systems of developing countries, information-based decision making is particularly important. This paper reports findings of a self-report survey that investigated perceptions of local health managers (HMs) of their own regional HIS in Sri Lanka. Data were collected through a validated, pre-tested postal questionnaire, and distributed among a s...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Discretionary use of family practice information systems: an empirical examination in Turkey.
Authors: Ada S, Bal CG, Celik A, Akgemci T PMID: 23571076 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Mining association rules between abnormal health examination results and outpatient medical records.
Authors: Huang YC PMID: 23571103 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Moving health promotion communities online: a review of the literature.
Authors: Sunderland N, Beekhuyzen J, Kendall E, Wolski M PMID: 23571123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Researching the reliability of accreditation survey teams: lessons learnt when things went awry.
Authors: Greenfield D, Pawsey M, Naylor J, Braithwaite J Abstract Accreditation of health organisations, occurring in over 70 countries, is predicated upon the reliability of survey teams judgements, but we do not know the extent to which survey teams are reliable. To contribute evidence to this issue, we investigated the reliability of two survey teams simultaneously assessing an organisation. The setting was a large Australian teaching hospital, and data were derived from interviews, observations and survey documents. Participants were from four groups: hospital staff, accreditation agency personnel and ...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Perinatal data collection: current practice in the Australian nursing and midwifery healthcare context.
Authors: Craswell A, Moxham L, Broadbent M Abstract The collection of perinatal data within Queensland, Australia, has traditionally been achieved via a paper form completed by midwives after each birth. Recently, with an increase in the use of e-health systems in healthcare, perinatal data collection has migrated to an online system. It is suggested that this move from paper to an ehealth platform has resulted in improvement to error rates, completion levels, timeliness of data transfer from healthcare institutions to the perinatal data collection and subsequent publication of data items. Worldwide, perin...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

The roles of users personal characteristics and organisational support in the attitude towards using ERP systems in a Spanish public hospital.
Authors: Escobar-Rodriguez T, Bartual-Sopena L Abstract Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems enable central and integrative control over all processes throughout an organisation by ensuring one data entry point and the use of a common database. T his paper analyses the attitude of healthcare personnel towards the use of an ERP system in a Spanish public hospital, identifying influencing factors. This research is based on a regression analysis of latent variables using the optimisation technique of partial least squares. We propose a research model including possible relationships among different con...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research