Farahnaz Sadoughi

Iran University of Medical Sciences · School of Health Management and Information Sciences

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the most prevalent causes of death worldwide. The early diagnosis and timely medical care of cardiovascular patients can greatly prevent death and reduce the cost of treatments associated with CAD. In this study, we attempt to prepare a new model for early CAD diagnosis. The proposed model can diagnose CAD ba...

Background and Objective: People with hearing impairments have not accessed well to health information sources compared to people with normal hearing. The study aims to show the status of electronic health literacy in persons with hearing impairments. Materials and Methods: The methodology was content analysis based on of Graneheim, B. Lundman's pa...

Background A disease severity classification system is widely used to predict the survival of patients admitted to the intensive care unit with different diagnoses. In the present study, conventional severity classification systems were compared with artificial intelligence predictive models (Artificial Neural Network and Decision Tree) in terms of...

Background: Acute coronary syndrome is the topmost cause of death worldwide; therefore, it is necessary to predict major adverse cardiovascular events and cardiovascular deaths in patients with acute coronary syndrome to make correct and timely clinical decisions. Objective: The current review aimed to highlight algorithms and important predicto...

The most common technique of orthopedic surgical procedure for the correction of deformities is bone lengthening by “distraction osteogenesis,” which requires periodic and ongoing bone assessment following surgery. Bone impedance is a noninvasive, quantitative method of assessing bone fracture healing. The purpose of this study was to monitor bone...

Introduction: Problems facing the health information systems and the potential of cloud computing make the use of this technology as a priority for healthcare organizations to migrate to the cloud. The purpose of the present study is to introduce a migration framework for health information systems to the cloud. Material and Methods: This study is...

Introduction: Problems facing the health information systems and the potential of cloud computing make the use of this technology as a priority for healthcare organizations to migrate to the cloud. The purpose of the present study is to introduce a migration framework for health information systems to the cloud. Material and Methods: This study is...

Background The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is complicated since it has multifarious signs and symptoms which are similar to the symptoms of other neurological diseases. Intelligent computer systems are used in diagnosing multiple sclerosis and help physicians in the accurate and timely diagnosis of the disease. Objective This study focuses on...

: Evaluation of electronic prescribing systems (EPS) can contribute to their quality assurance, and motivate users and policy-makers to implement these systems, directly influencing the health of society. An appropriate evaluation tool plays a determining role in the identification of proper EPS. The present study aimed to develop a multifaceted ev...

Background: The present study describes the steps of developing a hybrid teleoncology system to provide treatment plans for breast cancer patients. Materials & methods: This research was conducted in four stages, including developing a proposal for experts, identifying and analyzing system requirements, designing a prototype and implementing and ev...

Evaluation of electronic prescribing systems (EPS) can contribute to their quality assurance, and motivate users and policy-makers to implement these systems, directly influencing the health of society. An appropriate evaluation tool plays a determining role in the identification of proper EPS. The present study aimed to develop a multifaceted eval...

The Internet of Things (IOT) has led to ground-breaking changes in the healthcare industry as a promising technological solution. Yet, despite its many benefits, its application has always proven to be challenging. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of using the IOT with the intention of proposing a model for implementin...

Background Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) for Prescribing are one of the innovations designed to improve physician practice performance and patient outcomes by reducing prescription errors. This study was therefore conducted to examine the effects of various CDSSs on physician practice performance and patient outcomes. Methods This syst...

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the use of herbal medicines. Quality control and safety are two critical principles to be considered in the production process of herbal medicines. This review study aimed to investigate the condition of the countries other than Iran in terms of observing the safety principles, quality control,...

Background: Child injuries are a worldwide public health concern. An injury surveillance system (ISS) has a beneficial impact on child injury prevention, but an evidence-based consensus on frameworks is necessary to establish a child ISS. Objectives: To investigate key components of a child ISS and to propose a framework for implementation. Met...

Aim: To identify the main causes of malnutrition in childhood, it is necessary to collect quality and coherent data at the national level, which requires the creation of a minimum data set. Therefore, the present study aimed to design a minimum set of malnutrition data for children under five years of age. Methods: This quantitative applied study w...

Background: Teleoncology refers to the use of telemedicine for remotely providing multiple specialized services in clinical oncology processes, including screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, consultation, supportive care, pathology, surgery, and follow-up services. Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the required data elements an...

Purpose Child injuries are a public health concern globally. Injury Surveillance Systems (ISSs) have a beneficial impact on child injury prevention. There is a need for evidence-based consensus on frameworks to establish child ISSs. This research aims to investigate the key components of a child ISS for Iran and to propose a framework for implement...

Nowadays, applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) have been introduced in different fields of medicine to provide more efficient medical services to the patients. A systematic mapping study was conducted to answer ten research questions with the purposes of identifying and classifying the present medical IoT technological features as well as...

Introduction The use of telemedicine in orthopaedics can provide high-quality orthopaedic services to patients in remote areas. Tele-orthopaedics is widely acknowledged for decreasing travel, time and cost, increasing accessibility and quality of care. In the absence of a comprehensive review on tele-orthopaedics applications and services, here, we...

Background The clinical decision support systems(CDSSs) for prescription medications is one of the technologies aimed at improving physician practice behavior and patient outcomes by reducing drug prescription errors. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of various CDSSs on physician practice behavior and patient outcomes. Methods Thi...

Background: The clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) for prescription medications is one of the technologies aimed at improving physician practice behavior and patient outcomes by reducing drug prescription errors. This study, thus, was conducted to investigate the effect of various CDSSs on physician practice behavior and patient outcomes. Me...

Background: Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) for Prescribing are one of the innovations designed to improve physician practice performance and patient outcomes by reducing prescription errors. This study was therefore conducted to examine the effects of various CDSSs on physician practice performance and patient outcomes. Methods: This sys...

Background: The clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) for prescribing is one of the technologies aimed at improving physician practice performance and patient outcomes by reducing medication prescription errors. This study, thus, was conducted to investigate the effect of various CDSSs on physician practice performance and patient outcomes. Met...

Context: The current studies on IoT in healthcare have reviewed the uses of this technology in a combination of healthcare domains, including nursing, rehabilitation sciences, ambient assisted living (AAL), medicine, etc. However, no review study has scrutinized IoT advances exclusively in medicine irrespective of other healthcare domains. Object...

Introduction: Internet of Things (IoT), which provides smart services and remote monitoring across healthcare systems according to a set of interconnected networks and devices, is a revolutionary technology in this domain. Due to its nature to sensitive and confidential information of patients, ensuring security is a critical issue in the developm...

Introduction: IT governance points out how to manage IT and align the decisions related to IT with processes, resources, and responsibilities within the organization. This study was conducted aimed at a review of studies on the principles, domains, and processes of IT governance framework. Method: This is an applied study that was carried out in th...

Cloud technology has brought great benefits to the health industry, including enabling improvement in the quality of services. The objective of this review study is to investigate the reported factors affecting the adoption of cloud in the health sector by comparing studies in the health and non-health sectors. This article is a systematized review...

Identifying the factors and components of an electronic prescription system is of utmost importance in effective designing and implementation of this system. In this regard, the current study was conducted to determine the main factors affecting the national model of electronic prescription from the physicians' point of view. This is a cross-sectio...

Context: Traditional medicine information system (TMIS) is a substructure founded on the targeted application of technology. It also serves as a tool supporting the decisions in traditional medicine (TM). However, due to following a different approach in the treatment process, the TM has faced some challenges. Aims: To review the universal progress...

Introduction: Pneumonia is the most common and widespread killing disease of respiratory system which is difficult to diagnose due to identical clinical signs of respiratory system. Aim: In this research, to diagnose this, a structure of a fuzzy expert system has been offered. This is done in order to help general physicians and the patients mak...

During recent years, Information societies are continually confronted with security threats and information vulnerabilities. Literature analysis of major disciplines is one of the key tools available to policymakers of research institutions and organizations. Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analyzing sc...

During recent years, Information societies are continually confronted with security threats and information vulnerabilities. Literature analysis of major disciplines is one of the key tools available to policymakers of research institutions and organizations. Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analyzing sc...

Purpose: Child injuries are a global public health problem and injury surveillance systems (ISS) can be beneficial by providing timely data. However, ISS implementation has challenges. Opinions of stakeholders of ISS implementation barriers and facilitators are a good source to understand this phenomenon. The aim of this study is to investigate ba...

Background The Hospital Real-time Location Systems (HRTLS), deal with monitoring the patients, medical staff and valuable medical equipment in emergency situations. Therefore, the study aimed to propose Hospital Real-Time Location Systems based on the novel technologies in Iran. Methods In this narrative-review, the articles and official reports o...

Introduction: Internet of things is a hot topic in the modern age of information and communication technology has become pervasive in various industries, particularly in healthcare sector. The security and privacy issue has attracted a lot of attention and has become a controversial issue in this area. The purpose of this study was to identify secu...

Introduction: Internet of things is a hot topic in the modern age of information and communication technology has become pervasive in various industries, particularly in healthcare sector. The security and privacy issue has attracted a lot of attention and has become a controversial issue in this area. The purpose of this study was to identify secu...

Aim: Cardiovascular diseases are common and chronic impose many financial and health burdens on individuals and communities. Patients with these diseases have always experienced a high rate of death, disability and poor quality of life. Telemedicine is a promising approach to improving the care of these individuals. The aim of this study was to eva...

Background and Aims: Clinical Governance (CG) is a strategy for providing responsive, accountable, patient-centered, high quality, safe and effective healthcare services through creating an appropriate organizational structure and culture; and developing, implementing and monitoring clinical standards. This study aimed to examine the success of cli...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the most important applications in the healthcare domain which has many benefits for the healthcare community as a whole. The objective of our study is to conduct a comprehensive systematic literature review regarding the EHR adoption over the various healthcare contexts in order to identify the used adoptio...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women around the world. Despite enormous medical progress, breast cancer has still remained the second leading cause of death worldwide; thus, its early diagnosis has a significant impact on reducing mortality. However, it is often difficult to diagnose breast abnormalities. Different tools such as mamm...

Background Determining the standard data elements for developing an integrated information system is of crucial importance in order to better design electronic health records system at the national level. The aim of the present study was to determine the minimum data elements of asthma for the electronic health record in Iran. Materials and Method...

Background and Objective: Health Information Exchange (HIE) is known as a technology that electronically shares all clinical and administrative data throughout healthcare settings. Despite this technology has a great potential in the healthcare industry, there is a limited and sparse evidence of articles which illustrated the impact of HIE on quali...

Healthcare is a highly institutionalized industry, subject to multiple regulatory forces, high levels of professionalism, and growing network externalities which may affect the decisions to adopt. Hence, this research integrates the Resource Dependence Theory (RDT), institutional theory along with Human Organization Technology (HOT) fit model as th...

Abstract: Introduction: Health care systems are known as complex systems, which are difficult to analyze and reengineer. Health system engineers often rely on Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model and simulate various parts of these systems. The purpose of the current studywas to identify the most widely used and least-practicable UML diagrams...

Cloud computing as a modern technology has brought various benefits to the healthcare industry. The purpose of the present study is to introduce the advantages of implementing cloud computing in the health industry of Iran, which was conducted through a qualitative methodology by interviewing 12 experts in the field of health and cloud computing in...

Background The implication of health literacy is the ability of individuals to find, understand, and use their required health information from reliable sources. It is an indicator of the individuals’ participation in their own medical decision-making. Deaf individuals have limited health literacy and poor health status due to low literacy. Hence,...

Background: Nurses' use of electronic literature has remained limited. Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify barriers concerning application of electronic literature on evidence based practice in nursing. Methods: Six bibliographic databases were searched using the following keywords: challenges, barriers, obstacles, evidence based...

Due to the various beneficiaries of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the information requirements of each group should be taken into account while designing the EHR. In line with the priority of implementing electronic health records in the province of Sistan and Baluchestanin Iran, this study aims to assess the dental information requirements of E...

Background Maternal mortality is preventable by proper information management and is the main target of the Maternal Mortality Surveillance System (MMSS). Aim This study aimed to determine the status of information management in the Iranian Maternal Mortality Surveillance System (IMMSS). Methods The population of this descriptive and analytical s...

Teleradiology is considered as one of the important forms of telemedicine. Positive views of the users and providers of these services play an important role in its successful implementations. The aim of this study was to investigate the views of radiologists used in the radiology departments of teaching hospitals in the Zahedan University of Medic...

Healthcare as a worldwide industry is experiencing a period of growth based on health information technology. The capabilities of cloud systems make it as an option to develop eHealth goals. The main objectives of the present study was to evaluate the advantages and limitations of health information systems implementation in a cloud-computing conte...

To date, there have been many strategies, including educational interventions, for cancer prevention and control, but most of them are not deaf-tailored ones. This narrative review aimed to examine cancer educational programs to improve the deaf individuals’ knowledge and attitude toward cancer. The design of this study is a narrative review. We se...

Introduction:The targeted application of the technology for the record of the drug information may substantially assist the healthcare service providers supporting the drug-related decisions. This study intended to assess the performance of the electronic patient’s drug chart integrated in the pharmacy information system [PIS] by comparing the user...

Background: To encourage students and professionals to use health information technology (HIT), an awareness of their perceptions of various aspects of using this facility is essential. The current study aimed to assess HIT knowledge, attitude, and practice among health care professionals and students in teaching hospitals in Iran. Methods: This ca...

This review study aimed to compare the electronic prescription systems in five selected countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, England, and the United States). Compared developed countries were selected by the identified selection process from the countries that have electronic prescription systems. Required data were collected by searching the valid...

Due to the various beneficiaries of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the information requirements of each group should be taken into account while designing the EHR. In line with the priority of implementing electronic health records in the province of Sistan and Baluchestanin Iran, this study aims to assess the dental information requirements of E...

Healthcare as a worldwide industry is experiencing a period of growth based on health information technology. The capabilities of cloud systems make it as an option to develop eHealth goals. The main objectives of the present study was to evaluate the advantages and limitations of health information systems implementation in a cloud-computing conte...

Background and purpose: The office of disaster management and emergency medical service is one of the most important subdivisions of the Ministry of health. Analyzing the tasks and functions of this office is critical to its evaluation. This study aimed at analyzing the information needs of this office to develop statistical indicators required. Ma...

Objective: Challenges and drawbacks of the health information management (HIM) curriculum at the Master’s degree were exam- ined, including lack of well-established computing sciences and inadequacy to give rise to specific competencies. Information man- agement was condensed to the hospital setting to intensify the indispensability of a well-organ...

Background The aim of this study was to survey the Iranian Parasitology researchers’ performance, and analyse and visualize the scientific outputs of their co-authorship network. Methods This study was conducted using scientometric method and social network analysis (SNA). The data extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) databases in July 10th 201...

p> OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the perspective of clinicians about the effect of information technology (IT) on healthcare improvement. METHODS: This cross-sectional study conducted in 2014-15, developed a questionnaire to evaluate of the perspective of 281 employees at two general hospitals affiliated with Zahedan University of Medical Sci...

Objective: In order to increase investment in medical and biomedical research particularly in developing countries the need for visibility of research outputs is very important since this would lead to more investments and more researches within the country. Medical and biomedical research information system utilizes computers and communication equ...

information systems from different perspectives. Delone and Mclean assessed the success of HISs and recommended the indicators of system quality, information quality, service quality, intentions for use, user satisfaction, and its effect on individuals and organizations (Delone & McLean, 1992; Delone & McLean, 2001). Yusof et al. used a model calle...

Objective: Hospital information systems can improve the quality of health care. Evaluations of these systems use different methods and criteria. The present study ranked the most important factors influencing evaluation in various systems. Prioritizing the essential factors can increase the efficiency of the evaluation process and reduce the cost a...

Background: In recent years, hospitals in Iran - similar to those in other countries - have experienced growing use of computerized health information systems (CHISs), which play a significant role in the operations of hospitals. But, the major challenge of CHIS use is information security. This study attempts to evaluate CHIS information security...