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Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences 2018, 25(5): 161-169 Back to browse issues page
Investigation of Factors Affecting the Uptake of Dedicated Revenues of Medical Sciences from the Perspective of the Managers (Case Study: Ilam University of Medical Sciences)
Rahmatolah Mohamadipoor * 1, Shahrokh Fouladvand2 , Farshad Sabzali3 , Samireh Ghale dare4
1- Dept of Accounting, Ilamn Branch, Islamic Azad University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran , RM.accounting2@yahoo.com
2- Dept of Accounting, Ilamn Branch, Islamic Azad University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran
3- Dept of Accounting, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran
4- Dept of Financial Management, Ilamn Branch, Islamic Azad University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran
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Introduction: providing health care is one of the basic needs of every community for which major part of the Government's financial resources is allocated. Inadequate resources allocated to treatment part have created a significant gap between the available resources and needed resources. This issue has made it a necessity to create   resources through the use of proprietary revenues. In this context, the present study sought to identify factors affecting the uptake of dedicated revenues in Ilam University of medical sciences.
 
Materials & methods: the present research in terms of its objectives is functional in nature, and in terms of the method is descriptive and analytical. Research population is all the hospitals under the supervision of Medical University of Ilam and also its headquarters in 2014. For the sampling, relative stratified sampling methods and for data collection a researcher-made   questionnaire is used. To evaluate the reliability, the coefficient of Cronbach’s alpha was used which was 0.93. The data was analyzed using SPSS software version 19.
 
 Findings: the results suggest that the use of HIS as an advanced software, specialist staff, and detailed and accurate recording of therapeutic measures conducted in the hospital bills on the receipt of dedicated revenues has a significant impact on revenues while improving the processes and procedures for collection of receivables and remove the manual system of the receipt income (the Fund) not has not a significant impact on revenues.
 
 Discussion & conclusions: according to the findings of this research, Ilam University of medical sciences can increase its revenues by using HIS as advanced software and also by specialist staff for the detailed and accurate recording of therapeutic measures conducted in the hospital bills.

Keywords: Proprietary revenues, HIS, Skilled manpower, Manual systems to collect revenue, Ilam University of Medical Sciences
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Received: 2015/09/28 | Accepted: 2016/10/10 | Published: 2018/01/21



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