Research on Obstacles to Integrated Financial Management and Pathways for Smart Finance Construction in Multi-Campus Public Hospitals

Abstract

The steady expansion of public hospitals into multi-campus construction is driving a critical need for more integrated, coordinated, and refined financial management. Due to their dispersed layouts and diversified business types, multi-campus public hospitals still face several challenges in promoting financial integration. Key issues include inconsistent financial systems and management standards, insufficient coordination among budgeting, cost, and performance management, fragmented information systems, poor data sharing, complex financial processes, and low maturity of intelligent application. As an important pathway for promoting the transformation of hospital financial management, smart finance construction can enhance the level of financial integration across campuses through standardized systems, optimized processes, system integration, and data synergy. Focusing on the main obstacles in the financial integration of multi-campus public hospitals, this study proposes development pathways such as unifying financial systems and management standards, strengthening budget-cost-performance coordination, promoting system integration and data sharing, and optimizing financial processes and smart applications, with the aim of providing references for improving hospital financial governance capacity and operational efficiency.