Indonesia medical knowledge management system: A proposal of medical KMS

Abstract

Medical record is a documentary file containing patient's medical information. In Indonesia, many problems regarding the management and preservation of medical record is still a concern while existing medical records are still present separately depending on the medical institution. On the other hand, Indonesian people are known to constantly switch doctors and thus making their medical history scattered amongst medical institutions. Many research studies in medical field for disease management cannot be done because of insufficient knowledge which actually can be resolved by KM. The main problems of this study are the inexistence of a complete life-long medical history documentation of the patients and the unavailability of medical records for mass utilization for health research institutions. Therefore, knowledge management system is needed to manage the medical record knowledge in different medical institutions across Indonesia and to gather all medical records of each person in order to form a more complete life-long medical history utilization for health institutions. This study is a proposal of a research which objectives are: to propose mass utilization of medical record information system and to propose interconnected access for a patient medical record between health institution across Indonesia by developing a knowledge management system which will be useful for future treatment and management of patient with similar condition and for medical research complete source of past, current, and possible future health condition. In this study, the SECI model founded by Nonaka and Takeuchi is used as an approach to plan the knowledge management system.