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Elaheh Ommati, Akram Alipour,
Volume 2, Issue 2 (10-2016)
Abstract
Introduction: Database design by taking into account the components of user interface, usability and technical issues, is a key indicator of quick access to the required information of the users. Ovid assessment criterion evaluates databases in terms of user interface, usability and technical issues. The purpose of the present paper is to determine the important elements in the design of user interface, usability, and technical issues of databases.
Methods: The present study is an applied study that has been conducted through Literature Review method and the required information was collected through the study of resources and by searching for articles on websites and in databases of relevant literature (the components of Ovid assessment criterion). Validity of Ovid assessment criterion was confirmed by 5 experts of Library and Information Sciences. Free Plane software has been used to draw the components of Ovid assessment criterion.
Results: Findings showed that in order to evaluate usability, technical issues and databases user interface, the Ovid criterion uses 48 sub-components grouped in six main criteria (including search, services, display, Links, guides or documentations, and performance). In addition, the search criterion consists of 20 sub-components, display criterion have 11 sub-components, services criterion has 6 sub-components, links criterion has 2 sub-components, guiding criterion has 4 sub-components, and performance criterion has 5 sub-components.
Conclusion: Designers must pay attention to user interface, usability and technical issues because these components play an important role in facilitating information routing and users can in the shortest time and simply to meet their information needs. In fact, by complying with a standard or criterion in creating databases, rate of access to the required information is considerably increased.
Zeinab Esmaeilzadeh, Niloufar Choobin, Najme Ashkani, Marjan Kamalipour,
Volume 2, Issue 2 (10-2016)
Abstract
Introduction: Information Technology (IT), due to its high capacity in production, processing and distribution of knowledge, is of a great sensitivity. That is due to the fact that data and the way they are transferred and processed are essential for organization. Therefore, the present research was conducted aiming to investigate the feasibility of implementing IT capabilities in Bandar Abbas university hospitals in 2014.
Methods: The present descriptive study conducted in 2014 aimed to investigate the feasibility of implementing IT capabilities in Bandar Abbas university hospitals. The setting of the study was the university hospitals in Bandar Abbas. The research population was comprised of all IT authorities. A census was the sampling method, and the data were gathered using a standardized questionnaire. Once collected, the data entered the SPSS 19 for the required analyses including mean score and standard deviation.
Results: The mean score of IT infrastructure and network in these hospitals was found to be 74; the mean score of hardware equipment was 73; the same score for software equipment was estimated to be 70; Human forces got the mean score of 76 and the extent to which IT was used in these hospitals was estimated to be 68. Moreover, the mean score of the overall use of IT in Bandar Abbas university hospitals was calculated to be 72.
Conclusion: Considering the mean overall score of using IT in each and every university hospital in Bandar Abbas, IT enjoys a consistent level in these hospitals. Similarly, according to the mean score obtained, the IT level in these hospitals can be interpreted as satisfactory. As a result, implementing IT capabilities is deemed feasible in this context.
Elaheh Ommati, Seyed Javad Ghazimirsaeid, Akram Alipour,
Volume 3, Issue 1 (spring and summer 2017)
Abstract
Aim: The existence of proper search interfaces in evidence-based medicine databases will lead to quick access to evidence-based medicine. Given The necessity and their importance, the aim of this study is an evaluation of search interfaces in evidence-based medicine databases.
Methods: This study was an applied research, Carried through survey method. The study population was 12 evidence-based medicine databases including evidence-based medicine subscription databases of electronic library website of Tehran University of medical sciences and other evidence-based medicine databases. The validity of the checklist was confirmed by 3 experts of medical library and information sciences. The collected data were analyzed after being entered into the statistical software Excel using descriptive statistics.
Results: The findings showed that the search components using Boolean operators and sets (69%), phrase searching (50%), and truncation and stemming (50%) have the most points, and other components received low scores. moreover, totally, all the databases received points less than 50 percent, and the databases were in an undesirable status.
Conclusion: Despite the necessity of the existence of proper search interfaces in the evidence-based medicine databases, compliance with elements of the proper search interface was very low. It is recommended that designers and database developers use proper search interfaces in creating the databases.
Yousef Mehdipour, Mohammad Khammarnia, Afsaneh Karimi, Jahanpour Alipour, Farzaneh Seyedzaei, Saeid Ebrahimi,
Volume 3, Issue 1 (spring and summer 2017)
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Introduction: World Health Organization reports’, indicated that the image of health care service delivery have changed by application of mobile health and wireless technologies for supporting and achieving the objectives of health industry. The present study aimed to determining the level of physicians’ familiarity with Mobile Health Services and investigating the factors affecting that
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in southeast of Iran in 2016. The statistical population includes all physicians working in five University Teaching Hospitals (n=150). A validated questionnaire, prepared based on the variables of Technology Acceptance Model 2 and models, was used for data collection. The reliability of the given questionnaire was confirmed with the correlation coefficient of 0.8. Moreover, SmartPLS 3.2 and SPSS software were used to the data analyzing.
Results: Most of the respondents (112, or 74.4%) were female and 84 of them (56%) were less than 30 years old. All the physician used Smartphones. The score of perceived usefulness, behavioral intention, perceived enjoyment, and subjective norm, perceived ease of use, image, volunteering and objective usability constructs were higher than average baseline, representing the acceptance of mobile phone by them. The relations of all constructs with one another towards the attitudinal and behavioral objectives of the mobile health services acceptance were significant (P< 0.05). However, demonstrability construct had not any correlation with perceived usefulness (P>0.05).
Conclusion: The most significant factors affecting the mobile phone acceptance by the physicians were identified. The results of this study may provide useful information to the health mangers and policy makers to take step toward improving the service quality by using the new technologies.
Morteza Hemmat, Jahanpour Alipour, Niloufar Jahani,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (Autumn and Winter 2018)
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Aim: paying attention to quality and performance of medical record departments is critical because of its multiple beneficiaries and its important role in health and treatment of patients. This study aims to evaluate the performance of medical record department based on European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model.
Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018. The population consisted of all managers (five managers) and employees of medical record departments (54 staffs) in teaching hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. Due to the limited research population, sampling was not done and the sample size was considered equal to the size of the population. Data were collected by a questionnaire consisting of 50 questions. Data were analyzed with the SPSS software using descriptive statistics.
Results: The medical record departments acquired score of 411.9 of 1000 (58.81%), of which empowerments and results factor achieved 232.37 and 179.57, respectively. Among enabler factors, the highest score (51.76%) belonged to partnership and resources, and the lowest belonged to processes (18.08%). Among results factors, the highest score related to employee’s (47.93%) and the lowest (43.16%) related to customer results.
Conclusion: The performance of the medical records departments was lower than the average. Therefore, designing and managing the department processes, identifying and prioritizing improvement opportunities in the department, improving relationships with stakeholders, adapting services and facilities to meet the needs of stakeholders, and paying attention to continuous improvement to improve the performance of medical record departments seems necessary.
Jahanpour Alipour, Yousef Mehdipour, Pezhman Sheibani-Nasab,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring and Summer 2019)
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Aim: High quality data are prerequisite of high-quality health care. Present study aimed to evaluate hospital information system data quality in educational hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The applied cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018. Research population comprises HIS’ users of five public hospitals affiliated to Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. The convenient sampling technique was used for the selection of 300 samples. Data were collected using a researcher-conducted questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS software using descriptive and analytic statistics.
Results: The mean score of accessibility included (7/35±1/61), relevancy (7/01±1/18), security (7/07±1/39), understandability (7/16±1/23), concise representation (7/12±1/32), ease of operation (7/12±1/20), and interpretability (7/21±1/09) out of a total 10 achieved from users’ perspective. The mean score of objectivity comprised (6/86±1/32), reputation (6/65±1/33), appropriate amount (6/93±1/43), believability (6/88±1/36), timeliness (6/80±1/49), completeness (6/74±1/29), consistent representation (6/87±1/29), and accuracy (6/69±1/15) out of a total of 10. A significant and positive correlation exists between all of evaluated factors (p-value < 0/05).
Conclusion: The evaluated hospital information systems data quality was considered an optimal level in terms of accessibility, relevancy, security, understandability, concise representation, ease of operation, and interpretability factors and were relatively optimal in terms of objectivity, reputation, appropriate amount, believability, timeliness, completeness, consistent representation, and accuracy factors. Thus, consideration and improvement of data, quality of HIS seem necessary.
Mohammadamin Harizavi, Zeinab Zare-Deris, Mahsa Mahidashti, Nasrollah Abaft, Aliashgar Valipour, Mahboobeh Momtazan,
Volume 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2020)
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Aim:Today, people are often faced with a huge amount of information in search of information and access to it, which, given the nature of various sciences, one must be able to find the best results using appropriate information skills and behavior. Therefore, considering the importance of the subject of this study, it examines the information needs and information behavior of Abadan University of Medical Sciences students.
Methods:This is a descriptive study conducted on students of Abadan University of Medical Sciences with a sample size of 300 individuals. The data collection tool of the researcher-made questionnaire has been confirmed by formal validity and the chrombach alpha coefficient is 80%, which has 2 sections with a total of 34 questions. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis.
Results:The findings of this study indicate that 64.3% of the research population were girls and 35.7% boys. In terms of age, more than half of the students in the age group were 21-23 years old. The findings suggest that most of the resources used to meet the Internet's information needs are the most important criteria for selecting a resource, including comprehensibility and credibility. The most common barriers to accessing information include low Internet speeds and lack of knowledge of the source. The resources used for free study are the Internet and books, respectively.
Conclusion:Considering the resources used and access barriers and infrastructure, it seems that informing about the existence of resources and their use, as well as strengthening the network infrastructure, the Internet, etc. will help to remove existing barriers and facilitate and accelerate access to information resources.
Abbas Sabet, Omid Jabari, Sima Alipour, Mohammad Reza Sabet,
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Summer 2020)
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Aim: Nursing is one of the challenging and stressful jobs that the managers of healthcare organizations should manage the created stress the commitment of the nurses during Covid 19 crisis. In this study, we investigated the relationship between stress management and nurses' organizational commitment with the mediating role of communication skills training.
Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive-correlational study includes 108 managers and nurses of Farabi Hospital in Bastak city in Hormozgan province during 1399 who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. SPSS software was used to analyze the data in the inferential section and LISREL 8.8 software was used to fit the path coefficient.
Results: The results showed that stress management has a positive and significant relationship with nurses' organizational commitment. This relationship was confirmed by path coefficient (0.19) and significance coefficient (2.92). Also, communication skills training as a mediating variable has created a positive and significant relationship between stress management and nurses' organizational commitment. In this way, the relationship between stress management and communication skills training with path coefficient (0.5) and significance coefficient (6.46) was confirmed. Furthermore, the relationship between communication skills training and nurses' organizational commitment with path coefficient (0.66) and significance coefficient (10.01) was confirmed. This relationship has the highest path and significance coefficient.
Conclusion: Findings show that due to the Covid-19 crisis, stress management and communication skills training can help improve the productivity and performance of all staff, especially nurses, and affect their organizational commitment in the hospital.
Mohammad Hosein Hayavi Haghighi, Jahanpour Alipour,
Volume 6, Issue 3 (Autumn 2020)
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Aim: The information technology model is used to determine user acceptance and satisfaction with the hospital information system. The purpose of this study was to determine the acceptance rate of hospital information system (HIS) by users based on the model of using information technology in teaching hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2020. The statistical population of this study was users of the information system of educational hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences and according to the Cochran formula, 277 users were determined as the sample size.' Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by content validity and its reliability was measured by Test-Retest (r=0/86). Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 22, descriptive (frequency and percentage) and analytical (Pearson's correlation coefficient) statistics.
Results: The average of HIS acceptance variables, including user satisfaction in terms of system support for tasks, user interface, compatibility with tasks, support for cross-sectoral collaboration, learning ability, accessibility and system support services, were 3.78, 3.65, 3.34, 3.60, 3.21, 3.30 and 3.50 respectively. This indicates a favorable situation for the first dimension and relatively favorable for other dimensions.
Conclusion: The users' acceptance rate is represented relatively desirable. But proper communication between users and system owners, using system support, and adopting appropriate management tactics can help increase user acceptance and satisfaction
Omid Safa, Dr Farid Khorami, Gholamali Javedan, Hamidreza Zarei, Mohammaf Fathalipour,
Volume 6, Issue 4 ( Winter 2020)
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Aim: The preparation, sale, or use of controlled drugs (CDs) require close regulation, and misuse of these drugs can have irreversible side effects. Therefore, the present study aimed to design a web-based system entitled San-Tech for monitoring of CDs.
Methods: This is a practical development study carried out to design and establish a program to monitor controlled drugs. The study was performed in three stages. At first, the informational and functional elements of the program were identified through interviews and investigations. In the second stage, they were reviewed and approved by experts. Then, this system was designed using the C # programming language, the server with ASP.NET Core API technology, and the user with Angular technology.
Results: The informational elements required for this system included 70 items in the classes of the patient, drug, prescription, physician, specialty, pharmacy. Nine functions are also considered for this system to apply more control over the use of CDs. The system was designed and available for pharmacies at https://pharmacy.hums.ac.ir.
Conclusion: This system can record some information, including patient and physician details, type and number of CDs, and the time of visit. According to this information, pharmacies, as well as Food and Drug Administrations, could monitor the sale and use of CDs
Maryam Asgharinajib, Saeed Razeghi, Sima Alipour, Abbas Sabet,
Volume 7, Issue 1 (spring 2021)
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Aim: Managing stress and proper communication with clients is a key element in patient-care. Study stress is very common among nursing students during Covid-19 crisis and has weakened trainees' relationship with patients. The aim of this study was to develop stress management training and communication skills of nursing students during Covid-19 crisis based on augmented reality.
Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 46 nursing students undergoing internship at Farabi Hospital in Bastak in 2020 were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participants received augmented reality-based education, and in the control group, education was conducted in the traditional way. The effectiveness of the training was assessed with a researcher-made questionnaire and the data were analyzed using SPSS software and independent t-test.
Results: Augmented reality training was more effective than traditional training and independent t-test showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups (P-Value=0.001). The mean scores of communication skills factors and stress management factors increased in the post-test compared to the pre-test. The mean scores of behavioral stress management, positive thinking, time management and relaxation techniques also increased in the post test.
Conclusion: Training of stress management and communication skills to nursing students based on augmented reality can improve learning and increase the effectiveness of training in a stressful hospital environment, especially during COVID-19 conditions.
Azim Zarei, Maryam Asgharinajib, Sima Alipour,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (Spring 2022)
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Objective: As one of the well-known countries for medical tourism, Iran has the potential for growth in this industry and requires information and advertisements in online media and websites. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the content produced by the website of AriaMedTour Medical Tourism Company in informing tourists.
Methods: This is an applied study that adopted an inductive approach in which the netnography qualitative research method was used. Data were collected in three forms: archive data, extracted data and field data, from the AriaMedtour website in 2021 and online data were analyzed in two stages of content analysis and analysis of customer comments and keywords in ATLAS.ti software.
Results: The results of content analysis showed that the content of the website falls into three categories of relational, organizational and advertising. Analysis of medical tourists' opinions also showed that the website was able to cover all the information needed by tourists. The tourists were satisfied with the information and services of the company and were mostly looking for information about costs, Iran, accommodation, food, and availability of translators. They get most of their information from the videos of tourists received the company's services.
Conclusion: The use of web-based platforms focusing on relational, advertising, and organizational contents for informing and attracting medical tourists is very effective.
Afsaneh Karimi, Yousef Mehdipour, Saeid Ebrahimi, Jahanpour Alipour,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (Autumn 2022)
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Objective Medical tourism as an active industry contributes to the sustainable development and economic growth of countries. This study aims to investigate the status of an ophthalmology hospital in Zahedan, Iran in attracting medical tourists.
Methods This descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2019 in Al-Zahra Ophthalmology Hospital in Zahedan. The study population consists of the administrative and clinical staff of this hospital. Using a census method, 75 people were selected. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with acceptable validity and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha=0.83) was used to survey the attitudes of participants. Mean, standard deviation, and independent t-test were used to analyze the collected data in SPSS software, version 22. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results The mean score for the possibility of attracting tourists by the hospital was 3.5±0.6. Among the study domains, general condition (3.7±0.7) and quality of equipment and infrastructure (3.7±0.6) obtained the highest score, while the geographical condition (2.8±0.9) had the lowest score.
Conclusion The potential of the ophthalmology hospital in Zahedan in attracting medical tourist is at moderate level. Introduction of historical and scenic places as well as tourist attractions of the province on the website of the hospital, coordination with tourism companies to organize recreational tours according to the climate of the province, creating a food menu and improving the quality level of patients’ foods in accordance with their cultures, as well as improving the hospital’s website, both in terms of content and technical issues, and making it trilingual (Persian, English and Arabic) can be effective in improving the status of the hospital in attracting more medical tourists.
Mohammad Hosein Haghighi Hayavi, Jahanpour Alipour, Mohammad Dehghani,
Volume 9, Issue 4 (Winter 2024)
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Objective Recently, healthcare organizations use advanced information technologies such as cloud computing (CC) to reduce costs and increase productivity. Since the level of technology acceptance plays an essential role in technology success or failure, this study aims to assess the factors affecting the acceptance of CC by the staff of teaching hospitals in Hormozgan, Iran.
Methods This is a descriptive-analytical study with a cross-sectional design that was conducted in 2021. Participants were 285 staff of three teaching hospitals affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, who were selected using stratified random sampling method. The data collection tool was the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) questionnaire with acceptable validity and reliability (Cronbach’s α=0.88). The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software, version 24 using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation test. Also, the effect of the factors was calculated in LISREL software.
Results The history of using CC had a significant impact on the behavioral intention and usage behavior (P<0.001). In addition, the relationship of social influence, facilitating conditions, effort expectancy, and performance expectancy with usage behavior and behavioral intention to use CC was significant, and their impact was higher on the behavioral intention of staff
Conclusion Individual awareness and knowledge, relevant organizational conditions, and the necessary infrastructure are the key factors in the acceptance of cloud computing by the staff of teaching hospitals in Hormozgan, Iran.
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