Journal of Health and Biomedical Informatics

Introduction: IT Governance includes IT management and the way to make IT decisions in line with the related IT processes, resources, and responsibilities. This study aimed to determine the current state of IT governance in education and training centers in Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Method: This is a practical qualitative study. In the first step of the study the population centers including the related documentation, and in the second step the units responsible for information technology, computing, informatics and hospital administrators who work in the center were included. Data collection tools in the first step was the data collection forms, and in the second step was interview guide. Content analysis of the documents and all the propositions were extracted. The final step is data processing and interpretations of the results. After interviews were collected, the data were identified, coded and classified. Finally, the sub-topics were combined, the topics were selected, and the thematic analysis was performed.
Results: 40% of centers' information technology administrators studied computer software at university and 40% of the managers were graduated from medical centers. The results showed that the president, the director, the IT department administrators, and the director of the Department of Statistics and Information Technology in many areas have made their decision in technology-related fields . In some centers also the IT department administrator provided the staff with job description after being approved by the hospital manager.
Conclusion: The structure of the studied centers' IT departments was vague and complex, so that the trustees, policy makers, administrators and IT operators in hospitals were not exactly clear. Keywords: Information Technology Governance, Information Technology, Information Technology Governance Domains

Introduction: The progressive increase in the elderly population in many developed countries leading to focus on health in this age group. Recording adequate data for the elderly people is considered as the basis for future planning for this part of society. Therefore, this study was aimed to compare the minimum data about elderly health in selected countries.

Method: This is a review article was carried out through internet and library studies. The Keywords were extracted from search engines and databases including Google, Yahoo, Google Scholar, PubMed and Proquest, and the Iranian National Medical Digital Library using inclusion criteria included English language and no time limit. All papers, research projects, theses, guidelines and progress reports were retrieved from America, Sweden, Japan and Iran. Also, Web sites of organizations responsible for elderly health in each country were visited and their documents were reviewed. The results of this search were presented narratively and within comparative tables.

Results: The results of this study showed that in selected countries, elder’s data collected in four axis. Most of demographic data is completed in America. In Sweden, Iran and Japan some data from medical histories and health assessment are considered as well as some financial data in Iran.

Conclusion: Given the importance of the health minimum data set for future planning, using the experiences of the pioneer countries in health is necessary, but localization of it according to the country’s needs is inevitable.