Mahdie Shojaei Baghini‎, Reza Rabiei‎‎, Farkhonde Aasdi‎, Hamid Moghaddasi‎, Abdoreza ‎Sabahi

Abstract

Development of mental health information system could help improving the delivery of mental health ‎services through improving information sharing. This study was conducted to investigate organizational and ‎information's structure of the system. ‎In this review study, the architectural models of mental health information systems in selected ‎countries. The databases used ‎included ProQuest, PubMEd, CINAHL, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Scopus, and WHO portal; as ‎well as correspondences with experts in other countries. The content of the relevant studies were analyzed and extraction ‎forms used at this stage. The findings were then presented in comparison tables.‎ ‎The results showed that, all selected countries have developed mental health information systems in ‎recent years. In each country, Ministry of Health is the owner of this system, ‎while many other organizations collaborate with it in mental disorders management process, as well as ‎policy making for information and technical monitoring and support of it. The selected ‎countries have also developed mental health minimum datasets for reporting mental disorders ‎information. Furthermore, mental disorders data are first sent to local or regional health ‎institutions. The data is then sent to the mental health information system.‎ In order to provide desirable mental health services, developing and deploying a mental health information system can be a valuable effort. ‎The prerequisite to developing a mental health information system is to determine the organizational ‎structure, data ‎elements collected and exchanged in each database, and data flow‎.