TY - GEN
T1 - Hospital information system survey in Qatar
AU - Al-Ali, Rashid
AU - Reti, Shane
AU - Feldman, Henry
AU - Safran, Charles
AU - Niaz, Rashid
AU - Erskine, Alistair
AU - Elmagarmid, Ahmed
AU - Al-Musleh, Abdulwahab
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Healthcare can be enhanced by the effective use of information technology to improve the quality and safety of care and many healthcare providers are adopting advanced health information technology to improve their healthcare delivery process. Qatar is a relatively young Middle Eastern country with an ambitious and progressive national strategy to develop its healthcare system, including an advanced e-health infrastructure delivering the right medical information at the right time to clinicians and patients. To assess the effectiveness of such programs, it is important to have a pre-intervention baseline from which comparisons, performance against target measures and forward thinking strategic planning can be grounded. This study presents the first published campus wide survey of Hospital Information Systems in large public and private hospitals in Qatar. Objective: To qualitatively assess and describe the current state of Hospital Information Systems in large hospitals in Qatar, and to establish a baseline or reference point for Qatar's readiness for, and adoption of Hospital Information Systems.
AB - Healthcare can be enhanced by the effective use of information technology to improve the quality and safety of care and many healthcare providers are adopting advanced health information technology to improve their healthcare delivery process. Qatar is a relatively young Middle Eastern country with an ambitious and progressive national strategy to develop its healthcare system, including an advanced e-health infrastructure delivering the right medical information at the right time to clinicians and patients. To assess the effectiveness of such programs, it is important to have a pre-intervention baseline from which comparisons, performance against target measures and forward thinking strategic planning can be grounded. This study presents the first published campus wide survey of Hospital Information Systems in large public and private hospitals in Qatar. Objective: To qualitatively assess and describe the current state of Hospital Information Systems in large hospitals in Qatar, and to establish a baseline or reference point for Qatar's readiness for, and adoption of Hospital Information Systems.
KW - Electronic Health Records (EHR)
KW - Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894322996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-959
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-959
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23920733
AN - SCOPUS:84894322996
SN - 9781614992882
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 959
BT - MEDINFO 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2013
Y2 - 20 August 2013 through 23 August 2013
ER -