Design and Standardization of Smart Hospital Evaluation Checklist

Smart hospitals try to reduce costs and increase the speed and accuracy by creating connection among service provider, care giver and equipment. Due to the lack of related tools for evaluating the level of smartness in hospitals, we presented this checklist.

This cross-sectional study was conducted in Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2022-2023. At first, the main domains and parameters of the smart hospitals were collected and the content validity was determined by 14 experts- recording CVI and CVR scores. Then face validity and criterion validity were also studied. Also, the reliability was checked with Cronbach's alpha coefficient.

Content validity of eight domains and 138 questions including: hospital building (32), hospital units (37), safety processes (17), clinical processes (6), management systems (6), patient processes (4), green management (21 indicators) and information technology (with 15) were approved. Also, face validity was approved by experts, criterion validity was obtained by expected results and reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.82).

In comparison with other existing tools, the domains and questions presented in this study are more comprehensive and accurate and specific to the hospital's structure which is recommended for assessing the level of smartness of hospitals.