Assessment of success of financial information system in educational, health, and medical centers affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

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1 Researcher, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

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چکیده

BACKGROUND: Financial information system is one of the subsystems in management informationsystem that is very important in health institutions. The use of financial information system creatingeffective and efficient information flow will greatly assist the management in decision‑making, so thatit can achieve institutional goals easier. This study is endeavored to assess the success of financialinformation system in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive‑correlational study was performed on the researchpopulation consisting of financial information system users in educational, health, and medicalcenters affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences during 2018 that were studied by thecensus method (n = 108) because of a small number of these users. The data were collected usinga questionnaire. The content validity of questionnaire was confirmed by pooling the ideas of fiveacademic members of the health information management and two financial information systemusers. The reliability of questionnaire was also estimated by Cronbach’s alpha. Then, the AMOSsoftware was used to analyze the gathered data.RESULTS: The result shows that system quality was positively correlated to the use and usersatisfaction whereas use and user satisfaction was positively correlated to net benefit (P < 0.05).Furthermore, the information quality was positively correlated to the user satisfaction (P < 0.05).CONCLUSIONS: As per the finding of this study, to improve user’s intention to use the financialinformation system and their satisfaction toward the system, managers need to develop useful,easy‑to‑understand, easy‑to‑learn, and easy‑to‑use information systems.