Integration of healthcare and financial information: Evaluation in a public hospital using a comprehensive approach

Abstract

Public healthcare organisations are moving towards the use of new technologies to automate and improve their internal processes in order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their use of resources. The aim of this research is to tackle the systematic evaluation of an experience of integrating information in a healthcare organisation, paying attention to the implications that this entails. The results show that the integration of the information in the hospital results in higher levels of quality. This study contributes a vision of interrelated work, in which tasks are shared and aims are jointly established.

Keywords: collaborative work practices and information technology; decision-support systems; information and knowledge management; information technology healthcare evaluation; organisational change and information technology.