Relationship between Information Technology Level and Triple Dimensions of Organizational Structure in the Hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

• Main Authors: Feisolah Akbari, Sayed Mostafa Hosseini, Abolghasem Pourreza, Shahram Tofighi, Samaneh Heidari
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Vesnu Publications 2010-12-01
• Series: مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت
• Online Access: http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/162

Introduction: Hospital has a complex and special structure and the important question that hospital management facing with is how technology can change structure. In the near future, no factor like IT is able to change the structure of organization. This research is a way to know the effect of IT on triple dimensions of organization structure includes complexity, formalization, and centralization. Methods: This cross- sectional analytical-descriptive research includes all of the people in hospitals that have management job and IT expertise. We use simple random sampling and we select finally ten hospitals. All data are collected by valid questionnaire. We analyze data with Normal distribution, Pearson correlation, and linear and multi regression testes. Results: According to the findings, there is significant relationship between generality IT with centralization (p=0.01) and between that with formalization (p=0.06). Study relationship between the five dimensions of IT (including network, hardware, software, staff and utilization) and triple dimensions of organization structure indicating that with the exception of network, rest of them have significant relationship with centralization and there is significant relationship between network and utilization with formalization. Conclusion: The influence of IT was not able to make fundamental change in structure of this organization. Keywords: Information Technology; Organization and Administration; Hospital Administration.