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. 2016 Feb;24(1):51-5.
doi: 10.5455/aim.2016.24.51-55. Epub 2016 Feb 2.

Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of Hospital Information Systems

Mehrdad Farzandipur  1 , Fatemeh Rangraz Jeddi  1 , Esmaeil Azimi  1
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Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of Hospital Information Systems

Mehrdad Farzandipur et al. Acta Inform Med. 2016 Feb.

Abstract

Background: Today, the use of information systems in health environments, like any other fields, is necessary and organizational managers are convinced to use these systems. However, managers' satisfaction is not the only factor in successfully implementing these systems and failed information technology projects (IT) are reported despite the consent of the directors. Therefore, this study aims to determine the factors affecting the successful implementation of a hospital information system.

Methods: The study was carried out as a descriptive method in 20 clinical hospitals that the hospital information system (HIS) was conducted in them. The clinical and paraclinical users of mentioned hospitals are the study group. 400 people were chosen as samples in scientific method and the data was collected using a questionnaire consisted of three main human, managerial and organizational, and technological factors, by questionnaire and interview. Then the data was scored in Likert scale (score of 1 to 5) and were analyzed using the SPSS software.

Results: About 75 percent of the population were female, with average work experience of 10 years and the mean age was 30 years. The human factors affecting the success of hospital information system implementation achieved the mean score of 3.5, both organizational and managerial factors 2.9 and technological factors the mean of 3.

Conclusion: Human factors including computer skills, perceiving usefulness and perceiving the ease of a hospital information system use are more effective on the acceptance and successful implementation of hospital information systems; then the technological factors play a greater role. It is recommended that for the successful implementation of hospital information systems, most of these factors to be considered.

Keywords: Effective factors; hospital; hospital information systems; information technology; successful.

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• Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this research.

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