Adoption of clinical information systems in hospitals in Uganda

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Medicine - Hospital Environment, Clinical Medicine, language: English, abstract: Clinical information systems offer the possibility to improve healthcare quality by providing clinical task support and clinical decision support by influencing clinical decisions at the time and place that these decisions are made. Unfortunately hospitals in Uganda have for long neglected their use despite mounting pressure from medical workers seeking pay rise which has left most government hospitals understaffed. As a result, patients are not attended to on time and medical trainees who assist in most hospitals sometimes lack the desired skills and do not get adequate guidance from experienced health workers to enable them make more informed decisions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of CIS in improving the quality of health care by providing clinical task support to medical workers. Data will be collected from mainly health workers working regional referral hospitals in Uganda whose populace is estimated to be 9000 and 383 will be sampled and given questionnaires. Depending on the outcome from the study, recommendations will be made on whether the government of Uganda should adopt clinical information systems in Uganda.