Abstract

Atefe Brumandi, *Somayeh Hessam and Abbas Ghavam

ABSTRACT

Objective: The present research aims to study the relationship between health information management and patients' treatment process in family physician plan in Shiraz in 2016. Method: This is a surveying study and statistical population includes all family physicians (5105 people). Based on Morgan sample size table, 358 were determined as the sample. Finally, 331 successful questionnaires were completed. The researcher-conducted questionnaire was used to collect information. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by professors and the construct validity was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis. In addition, the reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test. To analyze collected information, Pearson correlation coefficient, regression and SPSS 22 were used. Results: correlation results show that health information management (correlation coefficient: 0.27) has a direct and positive relationship with patients' treatment process. Furthermore, regression results showed that variables of information storage & retrieval, data analysis & transfer and managerial factors were entered the model and explored 78.3% (R2) of variance for treatment process variable. Conclusion: Regarding health information management, it is recommended that authorities pay attention to related issues.