ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN TEACHING HOSPITALS OF URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

The critical requirement of healthcare services on information and also
disabilities of paper chart to meet these serious needs has been caused to increase trend to use of the
Hospital Information Systems (HIS). The goal of this research is to determine advantages and
disadvantages of HIS.
Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2011.The study sample
selected by multistage cluster sampling method andconsisted of 160 HIS users from teaching hospitals
ofUrmia University of Medical Sciences. Data collected by using a self-structured questionnaire that
reliability of which had been measured by specialists and validity evaluated by internal consistency
method. Collected data analyzed by SPSS software descriptive statistics and analytical statistics (t-test
and chi-square).
Result: Maximum mean of scale in advantage of HIS related to the promotion of healthcare quality
(4/55 from 5) and better accessibility to accuracy information (4/42 from 5).Maximum mean of scale
in disadvantage of HIS related to the new skills acquisition (3/82 from 5) and high costly (3/48 from
5).
Conclusion: The results of the present study demonstrate that, for building a successful hospital
information system, users must be acquired sufficient training to increase their skills and knowledge in
order to utilize of that system and an appropriately support should also be organized to maintain and
promotion of system