Verification of Conformance Degree of Software Components in Health Care Information Systems with Software Quality Metrics

The impacts of employing healthcare information systems in decreasing the admission and discharge time, patient transfer time, the internal clashes and clinical applications, time to get answers and refer to previous data file, increasing information and request accuracy, accelerating the communication between hospital wards, increasing patient satisfaction, providing better quality services, accessing hospital income and expenses information, downsizing, etc. are obvious in recent decade. Regarding the significance and the broad application of these softwares, there are a few number of research to verify their conformance as a whole or a collection of components with software quality metrics. In this research, the quality of healthcare information systems componets that are currently being used in hospitals in Guilan province is investigated regarding their conformance to software technical quality metrics. To this end, ten components of five healthcare information systems are analyzed with gathering information of users through questionnaire. The conformance degree of each component with software quality metrics is statistically analyzed and presented through this paper.