Title: Early stage evolution of a hospital information system in a middle income country: a case study of Korea

Authors: Chang-yup Kim, Jin-Seok Lee, Yong-Ik Kim

Addresses: Seoul National University School of Public Health, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Seoul National University School of Public Health, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea.

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to understand the adoption trend of hospital information systems (HIS) in Korea. Our main interest was when hospitals adopted each component of HIS and how they expanded the system. A telephone survey with structured questionnaires was performed in the department of HIS in each hospital. As of 1998, 276 hospitals had been contacted with a response rate of 93.5%. Hospital information systems have been introduced rapidly since the early 1990s and mainly focused on business and financial systems, patient management systems (PMS) and management information systems (MIS). From the mid-1990s, HIS has been developed to include medical record management systems (MRS), order communication systems (OCS), laboratory information systems (LIS), and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Recently Korean hospitals have adopted HIS in the following order of magnitude: PMS, MIS, MRS, OCS, LIS and PACS.

Keywords: hospital information systems; medical informatics; diffusion of innovation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.2002.002429

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2002 Vol.4 No.6, pp.514-524

Published online: 17 Jul 2003 *

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