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Developing a General Framework for National Health Information Network for Developing Countries |
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Hamid Moghaddasi, Reza Rabiei, Farkhondeh Asadi, Ali Mohammadpour |
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Vol. 25 No. 6 pp. 168-178 |
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Abstract |
The National Health Information Network (NHIN) is one of the key issues in the field of health information systems in any country. On the other hand, the development of this network should be based on an appropriate framework. Unfortunately the conducted projects of health information systems in the Ministry of Health of Iran do not have full compliance with the concept of NHIN. The present study aimed to develop a general framework for NHIN of Iran. In this study, in the first stage the required information about the concept of the NHIN framework and related NHIN documents in the USA and the UK was collected based on literature review. Then, according to results of first stage and with regard to the structure of Irans health system, a general framework for NHIN of Iran was proposed. The Delphi technique was conducted to verify the framework. Data related to experts opinions were analyzed using SPSS 13 software. The proposed framework for NHIN of Iran includes three dimensions, including: components, principles and architecture. Over 80 percent of experts have evaluated all three aspects of the framework on an acceptable scale. In total, the proposed framework has been evaluated by 83.85 percent of the experts on an acceptable scale. |
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Keywords |
National Health Information Network, Health Information Exchange, National Health Information System, Health Information Systems |
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