Journal of Health Management and Informatics
Volume:4 Issue: 2, Apr 2017

Internet searches suggest people need to check the appropriate and correct information in the field of health. Meanwhile, due to the rapid growth of new technologies such as mobile technology, which today is universally accessible to all members of society, has been created a new and appropriate channel to offer health services that use this technology to propose best value tailored to customer requirements in a short time.
In this paper, several approaches and models has been exploited in order to study and design a new business model for mobile health nutritional counseling. First, the business value chain has been introduced and several parts of the Canvas model, VRISA index, Growth-Share Matrix and Familiarity Matrix and Porter’s Five Competitive Forces has been analyzed and finally, a cost and revenue model and food menu provision have been provided.
The results show that the application of Information Technology especially mobile technology is advantageous for nutritional counseling domain. With respect to a portion of the costs and revenues that are roughly predictable. The way to determine the price your service provider offers be considered floating price is higher than first and then reduce prices to attract more customers. The total number of customers leading to a break-even point is 5373. Once this amount is reached, the number of customers we will achieve profitability.
The proposed business model relatively provides a sustainable competitive advantage with low cost, but since resources are available in this area, the threat of new entrants is low and we need to maintain continuous improvement and innovation to keep our market position. With the increasing number of customers, revenues are growing exponentially, while the cost of the project is fixed. So attracting the customers and meeting their demand is very important.

Communication skills are one of the most important skills for health care managers and play an important role in their personal life and future occupation. The present study aimed to evaluate the students’ communication skills as well as its relationship with the students’ demographic characteristics.
This descriptive-analytical study was performed on 153 university students majoring in healthcare management in 2014. A self-administered communication skills questionnaire and demographic information form were used to collect the data. Then, the data were analyzed by using SPSS software and appropriate statistical tests including T-Test and ANOVA.
The results showed that the students on average got 77.60 out of possible 100 in communication skills. The relationship between skills and demographic characteristics, except age, was not statistically significant (p The present findings showed a moderate score in communicative skills in students of health care management. Although the communication skill levels in these students were not low, due to the importance of these skills in their future occupation, serious attention is needed to improve their communication skills.

The goal of integration of digital libraries (DL) is to utilize various autonomous DLs in concert to provide knowledge from such island-DLs. Integrated digital libraries (IDLs) appeared after the emergence of DLs in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME) of Iran has emphasized the integration of health services throughout the country which unavoidably requires the integration of digital libraries in Iranian universities of medical sciences. The main purpose of this investigation was to identify effective factors on such integration.
The present research was conducted through analytical-descriptive approach. The related data were gathered from literature, assessed by the Delphi Panel members and analyzed by Fuzzy TOPSIS technique (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation). The research population (Delphi Panel) consisted of 15 specialists in digital library areas. The snowball method was used to determine the research statistical sampling. The data were gathered through a five-point Likert scale self-made questionnaire after its reliability and validity were evaluated.
Study of related published studies in literature revealed that DLs, Integrated Information systems and IDL were three systematic related phenomena, which emerged and developed in a definite and unavoidable order. The findings showed that 34 affecting factors could be considered which influence the integration process of digital libraries in Iran Universities of Medical Sciences. The affecting factors could be classified into five main groups of strategic, technical, digital, organizational and human factors, according to their proximity and importance.
IDLs are the outcome of merging the experiences of DLs and integrated information systems, which have led to efficient and remarkable informatics systems. According to the findings of the present work five main factors consisting of strategic, technical, digital, organizational and human ones affect the integration process of DLs in Iranian medical science universities.

Telemedicine is defined as the ability to provide interactive health care by modern technologies and telecommunications which require related infrastructure and technologies. The aim of this study was to assess infrastructures of telemedicine at health centers, hospitals and clinics affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
This is a cross-sectional study conducted in 2015 on health care facilities equipped with telemedicine. These facilities consisted of 15 health centers, three hospitals and two clinics which were studied through census sampling method. Data were collected using a standard checklist and analyzed using descriptive statistics through SPSS version 21.
All the studied centers used laptop platform, of which 95% (19 Centers) had camera platform and 80% had monitors with full HD resolution. Of all the centers, 14.44% used clinical facilities and equipment and 85% (17 centers) had required facilities to hold video conferences. Totally, there was 21.31% of the required communicational protocol to establish telemedicine. The average internet network bandwidth of health centers was 644.68 MB/S.
According to the current condition of technical infrastructure of telemedicine, it is suggested that authorities make decisions and policies to develop and improve technical infrastructure for providing more advanced services in the field of telemedicine.

Patient safety and its requirements fulfillment are today one of the useful valuation indicators in healthcare organizations. Thus, patient safety culture and its promotion are referred to as one of the most important issues raised in the country. The present study aims to examine the effective factors (personal and organizational) in patient safety culture from the point of view of nursing staff in Bahman and Parsian private hospitals.
The study has an analytical cross-sectional design and is an applied research. HSOPSC (with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.82) and researcher-devised questionnaires (with Cronbach’s Alpha equal to 0.912) were the only data collection tools. Statistical population includes nursing staff of Bahman and Parsian private hospitals in north-west Tehran. A sample consisting of 150 nurse shift supervisors and head nurses was selected from the population. Necessary data for completing questionnaires were collected by interview. Data were analyzed using SPSS16 software. Given the levels of measurement for the variables, valid measures of central tendency (mean, standard deviation), correlation tests, Chi-square, t- test, and ANOVA were used.
The findings showed us that such factors as organizational commitment, error reporting system, management support, reward system, and employee empowerment equipment distribution have important roles in patient safety. Their P-values are reported Error reporting system and organizational commitment respectively have the most and the least effect on promoting patient safety culture. Empowerment heightens the awareness of employees, enhances their performance and productivity, reduces errors caused by lack of awareness, and improves patient safety. Reward system and organizational commitment had the least effect

The access to health information for all people is the fundamental goal of the World Health Organization (WHO). It comes tr ue when both health professionals and patients as beneficiaries have access to health information. Medical librarians play an important role in facilitating access to health information, and this role should be in the context and framework of scientific principles. The principles were first proposed by Thompson and Ranganathan and it was revised over time by scholars like Das (1), Gopinath, Holt, Gorman and Fadaie (2). The common feature of all these revisions is limited to activities of librarians to the library. But today, the activity scope of medical librarians is not only libraries but also they play a role in the scientometric centers, knowledge base centers, journals, publishing centers, and research centers (3) which are called Health Information Centers (HIC). In this article, we aimed to review and revise these principles according to new realm of medical librarians.