نوع مقاله : خلاصه سیاستی
تازه های تحقیق
مریم جهانبخش: Google Scholar
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The right to access health information is a fundamental and essential human right. Despite this, in the country's health system, patients' rights to utilize health information services have received less attention from policymakers and managers. This policy brief aims to analyze the dimensions of these rights and provide practical solutions for their realization, based on the findings of a Delphi study and expert opinions. The study's findings showed that patients' rights to utilize health information services have eight main dimensions, including the right to health knowledge, the right to access information, professional behavior of medical librarians with patients, content richness, information literacy skills, awareness of new services and products, ease of use of health information centers, and professional behavior of healthcare professionals with patients. Based on these findings and related expert opinions, five policy options were examined, including "developing and notifying a national charter of patients' information rights, designing and implementing educational courses for healthcare professionals and librarians, installing a charter of patients' information rights in public areas of hospitals and hospital libraries, defining a related course unit in the educational program of students, and creating a system for registering health information services in the patient's electronic file." Analysis of implementation barriers showed that each of these options faces specific challenges, such as lack of previous experience in developing such documents, time conflicts of educational courses with employees' daily duties, physical limitations in hospitals, long administrative processes for changing educational syllabi, and lack of unified information technology infrastructure.
کلیدواژهها English