Journal of Modern Medical

Introduction: Information is increasingly being produced and change at any time. In Iran, the elderly population is growing. Therefore, managers need real-time data and when the decisions. This study was conducted to determine the status of the elderly health management information system.

Methods: This research was a qualitative study applied. The study population included all documentation the Ministry of Health and the Secretariat of the Supreme Council for the Elderly in the first step and the second step were all faculty geriatrics, health information management and health service management. The first step, gathering tool was the data collection form and in the second step was an interview guide. Purposive sampling, snowball was to reach a consensus. Finally, notes and interviews were summarized and analyzed.

Findings: The results showed that documentation handy at all health centers, non-automated data flow takes place, analyzing and reporting data was done paper. Finally, the information will be delayed available to decision-makers.

Conclusion: Responsible for health in Iran is Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The organization must create the appropriate infrastructure for the elderly information management system. This system includes input, process and retrieval of elderly information. Due to population aging, MHME must implement the health management information system that is a priority program of the Ministry.

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Introduction: Tele medicine implies the use of information technology in communicating medical information and providing services in a linked communication between the patient and the medical team. The present research aimed to investigate students’ attitude towards telemedicine services in Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine faculties.

Methods: In the present descriptive, cross-sectional research, 306 students affiliated with the Nursing, Midwifery and Para-medicine faculties of Hormozgan University of medical sciences were selected randomly through a stratified sampling method in 2015. A questionnaire comprised of two sections was used one including demographic information and the other investigating the extent to which technology was used in 5 domains. The first part of the questionnaire explored subjects’ demographic information while the second section looked into the extent to which the subjects used IT. Cronbach’s alpha was used to test the reliability of the test which was estimated to be 80%. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. The data collected in each group were analyzed through parametric t-test, ANOVA as well as non-parametric Man-Whitney U-test and Kruskal-Wallis. Chi-squared test was used as well for qualitative variables along with descriptive statistics via SPSS ver.19.0.

Findings: A statistically significant correlation was found between sex and contextual factors as well as the beneficiaries’ factors (p=.026) and also between faculty and application domain (p=.08).

Conclusion: Students of both faculties similarly paid more attention to organizational factors along with access to high-speed internet from among the technological factors which showed to enjoy the most frequent application.

Introduction: As the most prevalent malignant neoplastic cancer among women, breast cancer stands as the second common cause of mortality inducted by cancer worldwide. Since people’s awareness affects their attitude and in turn positively affects the prevention of breast cancer and its timely prognosis, it helps to cut down on the mortality rate. This latter issue motivated the present study which aimed to investigate the awareness and practice of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine students concerning breast cancer at Bandar Abbas University.

Methods: As a cross-sectional research, the present study was conducted among university students in the second semester of 2015-16. The sample was selected through a randomized method and finally included 253 subjects. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire whose reliability and validity were already established in some other research. SPSS ver19.0 was used for the statistical analysis of the data.

Results: The majority of subjects (61%) had an average score and only a few (2.3%) achieved a good score. No statistically significant correlation was found between the family background of breast cancer and the awareness score. Half of the subjects (51%) were aware of the breast self-test method but only 37% did it regularly every month. 41.6% visited a doctor annually for a test. Negligence comprised the highest percentage of refraining from the self-test. Feeling no pain (29.2%) was the most common cause of not visiting a doctor. The internet played a key role among the information sources.

Conclusion: Raising awareness contributes to positive behavior and affects the performance of self-test and visiting a doctor. Students’ low level of awareness of how to diagnose breast cancer requires that healthcare staff as well as academics take a step to increase this awareness and practice through proper education and strategies.

Aim: With changes in health care system an integrated information system is required to meet the needs of people for service delivery and support the provision of health services.Evaluation of these systems leads to improvement ,development and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the hospital.This study aimed to evaluate the hospital information system of Shahid Mohammadi Hospital in Bandar Abbas from users' point of view in 1395.
Methods: This study is a descriptive-cross sectional study. The statistical population consisted of 546 hospital staff who obtained a sample size of 225 using the Morgan table.. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by experts And the reliability of this questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha.Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19 and Descriptive Statistics and one-way variance and Pearson tests.
Results: In this study Hospital information system (HIS) mostly used by  by nurses. 85.1% of individuals in this study expressed that HIS implementation caused to increase work facility and 53.8% declared that HIS implementation caused to reduce the personnel workload. 59.5% expressed that HIS implementation caused to reduce Paperwork.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the HIS governing the organization was in a proper condition But more considerations from directors  to the comments of users will enhance these system.

Objective One of the strategic goals of knowledge management and health information systems in the world is to provide up-to-date and quality medical information to scholars. It is important to provide efficient services by maintaining, upgrading, and dynamizing libraries and ultimately satisfying and meeting the information needs of users. The present study aims to investigate the quality of information services in medical libraries in Iran based on the knowledge management model
Methods In this study, the quality of information services in the libraries of medical universities in Iran was examined through interviews with managers of selected libraries. The interview was based on Lawson’s knowledge management model in six areas of creation, capture, organization, storage, dissemination, and application. The participants were 10 managers of the libraries at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, and Zabol University of Medical Sciences. The information was analyzed in Excel software.
Results The highest score (4.41) was obtained by Zabol University of Medical Sciences, and the lowest score (2.20) belonged to Iran University of Medical Sciences. 
Conclusion The quality of information services based on the knowledge management model in Selected medical libraries in Iran is at a relatively moderate level. There is a need for fundamental changes in this field to promote information services in medical libraries. The medical universities in Iran need to improve the quality of information and communication technology infrastructure of libraries and develop knowledge maps to improve the ranking of the libraries.