In Burkina Faso, most existing hospital information systems are limited to managing administrative and financial aspects. Computerized tools for managing medical data (clinical, paraclinical, therapeutic, etc.) are almost non-existent. Our goal was to setup a basic HIS in which will be integrated as first module, the very one that is lacking in Burkina Faso’s hospitals, a computerized patient records module. The design of this module as well as the hospital information system within which it will be deployed was based on a study of the businesses identified in Ouahigouya regional university hospital center and the interactions of patients with this hospital center. The pediatrics department has been taken as a model for the design of the module. This basic hospital information system with its embedded computerized patient records module has been deployed into the pediatrics department. The designed module allows almost complete digitization of commonly used paper supports (consultation record, medical record, treatment and monitoring sheet) with the resulting advantages (time saving, ease of access to data and statistical reports draw up). This was a very new experience in a reference healthcare center, which can respond to the identified problem.