Improving healthcare delivery with the use of online patient information management system

Abstract

The general state of healthcare in Zambia is poor and this can be attributed to a number of reasons. One of these is the suboptimal management of patient data and information for decision-making. This research paper focuses on the comparison of the performance of the paper-based patient record management systems and the Patient e-Files Online Health Record Management System (OHRMS). The performance evaluation of the two systems is with respect to the time spent on two basic registry operations. These basic operations are the registration of a new patient and the retrieval of existing+ patient records. The benefits of the OHRMS and the disadvantages of the current paper-based systems are discussed as well.