TITLE:
Maturity Assessment of Hospital Information Systems Based on Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)— Private Hospital Cases in Iran
AUTHORS:
Masarat Ayat, Mohammad Sharifi
KEYWORDS:
Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, Hospital Information System, Iran
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
11,
2016
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Today, information technology is considered as an important
national development principle in each country which is applied in different
fields. Health care as a whole and the hospitals could be regarded as a field
and organizations with most remarkable IT applications respectively. Although
different benchmarks and frameworks have been developed to assess different
aspects of Hospital Information Systems (HISs) by various researchers, there is not any suitable
reference model yet to benchmark HIS in the world. Electronic Medical Record
Adoption Model (EMRAM) has been currently presented and is globally well-known
to benchmark the rate of HIS utilization in the hospitals. Notwithstanding,
this model has not been introduced in Iran so far. Methods: This research was carried out based on an applied
descriptive method in three private hospitals of Isfahan—one of the most
important provinces of Iran—in the year 2015. The purpose of this study was to
investigate IT utilization stage in three selected private hospitals. Conclusion: The findings revealed
that HIS is not at the center of concern in studied hospitals and is in the
first maturity stage in accordance with EMRAM. However, hospital managers are enforced and under
the pressure of different beneficiaries including insurance companies to
improve their HIS. Therefore, it could be concluded that these types of
hospitals are still far away from desirable conditions and need to enhance
their IT utilization stage significantly.