Development of Management Information System with Hospital Statistics Approach: A Delphi Study

 The aim of the present study was to develop a hospital management information system (HMIS) as the infrastructure for establishing and deploying an electronic HMIS (eHMIS). Its deployment can lead to the achievement of integrated hospital information as well as reliable and timely statistical indicators of the current information system using efficient, new, and effective technology in the field of hospital management.

 This research was conducted in a mixed method in two parts of qualitative-comparative and qualitative-two-steps Delphi in year 2017. The research population was selected based on non-random sampling through a targeted sampling method among 30 experts in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.

The 10-step WHO-based HMIS development strategy consisted of 12 principles, 62 steps, and 28 worksheets. Experts agreed on the principles and steps in the initial model and the final model, and no changes were made. Corrections were made only in the worksheets section, and the number of worksheets increased in steps 1, 2, 6, and 9.

In order to establish an eHMIS, there is a need to design the infrastructure of the current hospital information system. The proposed solution can be used as a simple and quick manual and mechanized application to provide the infrastructure of the current hospital information system.