Project

A pilot project on digitalizing the hospital patient trajectory and secondary use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in Rwanda

Code
13V17820
Duration
01 January 2020 → 31 August 2022
Funding
Federal funding: VLIR-UOS
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Metabolic diseases
    • Vascular diseases
    • Metabolic diseases
    • Health information systems of medical informatics
    • Primary health care
Keywords
University of Rwanda electronic health records EHRs Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health Rwanda digitalization NCDs CVDs Cardiovacular diseases Non Communicable diseases Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership OMOP
 
Project description

The main objective of this pilot project is to strengthen the Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health (CEBE) of College of Science and Technology (CST) at University of Rwanda (UR) to conduct research on digitalizing the hospital patient trajectory and to enable the secondary use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in Rwanda. Through the project the UR/CST and CEBE teams will conduct a series of research activities including needs assessment and feasibility studies to improve the full patient record digitalization in selected health facilities in Rwanda. The goal is to improve the continuity of care in Rwanda by building the patient trajectory and to work on just-in-time data access and reuse for public health purposes e.g. guiding preventive policies or epidemic alerts, or real-time health indicators generation and clinical research purposes. Being a pilot project in few hospitals in Rwanda, the project will also explore the feasibility of a wide implementation throughout the country.

The specific objectives of this project are 1) to improve the full patient record digitalization; 2) to improve the continuity of care in Rwanda by building the patient trajectory and 3) to work on just-in-time data access and reuse for public health purposes eg. guiding preventive policies or epidemic alerts, or real-time health indicators generation and clinical research purposes. Being a pilot project in few hospitals in Rwanda, the project will enable a wide implementation throughout the country.