| dc.description.abstract | The research project was conducted at the Holy Cross Orthodox Hospital (HCOH)
Namungoona record’s department and focused on the health records. The purpose of this
research was to study the existing system of locating records at the Holy Cross Orthodox
Hospital (HCOH) Namungoona. The study aimed at identifying the different types of health
records kept, procedures used for access and retrieval, identifying the challenges of the
existing system, establishing how the identified challenges can be solved and finally
proposing an ideal locating tool for health records at Holy Cross Orthodox Hospital (HCOH)
Namungoona records department.
The study was guided five specific objectives, that is; to find out the records generated and
kept by holy cross orthodox hospital Namungoona, to examine the existing methods of
records indexing at Holy Cross Orthodox Hospital (HCOH) Namungoona, to identify the
challenges of the existing record’s retrieval and access tools at Holy Cross Orthodox Hospital
(HCOH)Namungoona, to find out the requirements for developing an indexing tool, to
develop an indexing tool for Holy Cross Orthodox Hospital Namugoona (HCOH) records
department
The methods of the study used to collect data were qualitative in nature and they included;
interviews guides, observation guides and documentary analysis and questionnaires were
distributed to the respondents purposive sampling was used to select the number of potential
respondents. Data was presented in tabulations, graphs and in an essay form.
The major findings in the study included the types of health records kept and generated,
current manual and electronic system in terms of the type of tools used to locate the health
records the department handles and procedures for access and retrieval of records challenges
of current locating tools at HCOH Namungoona. It was concluded that HCOH Namungoona
requires an ideal indexing tool.
Therefore it was recommended that HCOH adopt and implement the proposed indexing tool
as it is able to locate files easily, flexible, they save a lot of time and they can be easily
replaced once lost. | en_US |
