The role of hospital information system in improving the quality of reporting of infectious diseases

SHI Zong-hu; LI Xin-lin

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-3806.2014.07.18

Abstract：Objective To investigate the role of hospital information system ( HIS) -an infectious disease re-porting subsystem in improving the quality of infectious diseases reporting .Methods Two hundred and forty copies of data about the hospital infectious disease report card were randomly drawn from January to December in each year of 2012 ( before the application of the reporting system ) and 2013 ( after application of the reporting system ) .The SPSS19.0 software was used to deal with the statistical analysis of report card′s complete, accuracy and timeliness rates.Results After using the hospital information systems to report infectious diseases , the sampled reporting cards showed a downward trend in the delayed-reporting rate (χ2 =20.46 , P=0.0000 ) , with the result of that in 2012 (14.58%) and 2013(2.92%);the quality of the sampled infectious-disease-reporting cards have all improved for various degree.Among them, the difference of the complete rate between 2012 and 2013(82.92%vs 92.92%) was statistically significant (χ2 =11.30 ,P=0.0008 ) , the difference of accuracy rate between 2012 and 2013 ( 87.92%vs 95.00%) was statistically significant ( χ2 =7.71 ,P=0.0055 ) and the difference of timeliness rate between 2012 and 2013(85.42%vs 97.08%) was also statistically significant(χ2 =20.46,P=0.0000).Conclusion Using the hospital information system to report infectious diseases can effectively improve the complete , accuracy and timeliness rate of the reporting cards , thus ensuring the reporting quality .