Assessment of Laboratory Information System (LIS) Performance in two Military Hospitals: a Cross sectional study

  Laboratory Information System is a system that developed for collecting, processing, storing, and retrieving the data created in laboratory department in hospital. Therefore the aim of this study was to determine the performance of the laboratory information system (LIS) in Tehran NAJA hospitals. This study is a descriptive cross sectional study. The data were collected based on a valid checklist. Data analyzing were done by SPSS v 21 software and descriptive statistics. Based on the findings of the study, the mean score for the three criteria (data input, data storage and processing, and data output) examined, referring to the standards, was found to be 26.8, 21.15 and 29.35 for hospital No. one and 41.07, 31.25 and 40.1 for hospital No. 2 respectively. In general hospital No. 2 has better functional condition. with regard to the results, it was found that the standards under study for the LISs have been not proper attention. Hence, it is recommended that the proposed standards be examined and studied by organizations so that a user-friendly and responsive system can be developed based on the results of the needs-analysis done from the beneficiary organizations.