Situation of Speech Therapy Information Management in Rehabilitation Centers Affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Science

Health Information Management is a profession that attends to the nature, structure, and translation of data into usable forms of information to promote health and health care of individuals and populations. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the situation of speech therapy information management in rehabilitation centers affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Science. This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed in 2013 to assess the speech therapy information management in rehabilitation centers affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Data collection tool is a check list designed based on previous studies and also analyzed using SPSS21and One Sample t Test (to compare the average of statistical sample with that of statistical population). There Result of total rate was so: demographic data (2/15 ± 42/0); method of storing and retrieving information (1/54 ± 48/0); data processing (1/45 ± 48/0); and calculation of indices (1/73 ± 56/0).This indicates that the demographic sub-scales are favorable, but the other sub-scales of speech therapy information management are unfavorable at the rehabilitation centers of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The existence of dynamic and efficient speech therapy information management system is necessary. Therefore, the rules and standards should be suitable to collect, store, and analyze the data, retrieve the information, and regularly report to ensure effectiveness of service.