Develop an Extended Model for the Data Management System for Inter-Hospitals on Client Medical Services

Abstract

This study aims to implement a data management system that connects three regional hospitals and shares patient information to improve the services provided to patients, especially those treated in Kigali city. When the patient arrives, apart from what is written on the transfer sheet, there is no information about the illness, even though the patient had been hospitalized at the district hospital for many months. These issues drastically reduce the quality of service for patients, where they are often asked to repeat the symptoms, they receive poor treatment where each doctor first tries a drug and the patient has outgrown it, usually forcing the patient to start a new treatment. The research adopts descriptive research survey and the instrument used for the study was a questionnaire developed to cover the research questions and hypotheses. Forty-seven respondents were randomly selected from the population of the Study. The result from respondents was shown the need of the implementation of a data management system that connects three regional hospitals and shares patient information with the general hospital of CHUK to improve the services provided to patients, especially those treated in Kigali city.