Improvement Interoperability and Integrity of Health Information Systems with the IHE

Introduction: In order to the implementation of ldquo;SEPAS which is the development of electronic health Records in Iran, the creation and documentation of the essential data in the HIS seems necessary. The purpose of this study was to evaluate comptability of the hospital information systems (HIS) in Kerman teaching, Private and Social Security hospitals with minimum clinical data set developed by Iran rsquo;s Ministry of Health.Method: This study was a descriptive crosssectional study. The checklist developed by the Ministry of Health was used to evaluate the compliance with minimum data set (MDS) in 5 HISs of 9 teaching, private and social security hospitals. The study was conducted in the second half of 2014 in the City of Kerman, Iran.Results: The results showed that, software No.2 had the highest conformity level (%100) for the ldquo;medication and medical consumables data rdquo;, and (%97) in ldquo;Paraclinical data rdquo;, software No.5 had the lowest conformity levels (%79) and (%86) for the two forgoing indexes, respectively. It was also found that none of the HISs contained subcategories of ldquo;diagnosis death rdquo; data set including data on the ldquo;morphology of neoplasm rdquo; as well as ldquo;the place and time of death rdquo;.Conclusion: Given the importance of the MDS in integrating the data relating to the patients, implementation of the MDS developed by the Ministry of Health in the HISs is quite substantial by the system rsquo;s developers as well as ensuring its registration by the system users in the medical centers.