Physicians' use of IT applications in South Upper Egypt hospitals: A field study

Abstract

The study aims at the reality of physicians use of information technology applications in medical fields of various types and forms, and to show the trends of numerical, qualitative, objective and linguistic coverage of medical informatics applications used, exploring the trends of informational use of them, assessing the characteristics of the information structure of applications, and detect challenges and constraints facing the use of doctors. For IT applications, through an assessment framework that links reality and future aspirations. The study also reached a number of results, the most important of which are: There is a relatively diversified rate of use of the types of information technology applications in the medical fields. Specialized applications, medical databases applications, medical electronic library applications, medical guides and atlases applications, and specialized medical encyclopedias applications. This diversity is reflected in the numerical, qualitative, objective and linguistic coverage of the application. The role of informatics, the areas of use and the informational role of medical informatics applications. In addition, there is a difference in the levels of information infrastructure of the applications used, which confirms its excellence in the presentation of information content, as the study showed that there are several challenges and obstacles facing doctors use of information technology applications, which is reflected in the purchasing value of medical applications, and the accuracy of specialized content, of the most prominent recommendations The study: The need to spread the culture of the use of medical informatics applications among the medical community at all levels on the basis, methodology and informatics, in addition to the need to evaluate medical applications by specialized medical bodies to show their impact, and validity, from the information side A medical mate.