Document Type : Original Article
Authors
- . Mahesh Mahla
- . Shweta Talati 1
- . Anil Kumar Gupta 1
- . Ritesh Agarwal 2
- . Shailesh Tripathi 3
- . Sudip Bhattacharya 4
1 Department of Hospital Administration, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
3 MOHFW, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
4 Independent Public Health Researcher, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The acceptability of hospital staff in the use of hospital information management
system (HIMS) is an emerging research area it can explain the fate of any HIMS development and
implementation project in hospitals. The aim of this study was to observe the level of acceptance of
HMIS among nursing officials working at a teaching hospital.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross‑sectional study was conducted for 1 year in a teaching
hospital of northern India by using a pretested questionnaire. Our study participants were nursing
officers who were not under the probation period and we used a purposive sampling (10% nurses
from each ward). Our sample size was 256.
RESULTS: We have observed that majority of 174 (67.96%) participants had good acceptability
to the HIMS system. Our study revealed that most of the participants were aware of HIMS. Among
all participants, nearly half of them had good acceptability to the HIMS system. This is may be due
to their job profiles, distribution of their working places, and their past experiences with HMIS. The
bottlenecks such as connectivity problem, error prevention, and lack of training can be addressed
by the hospital management by proper measures.
CONCLUSION: The acceptance level of HIMS among the nursing officials working in a teaching
hospital was good.
Keywords
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