
Development of a Maternity Clinic Information Management System
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of advanced trends in computer science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2278-3091
DOI - 10.30534/ijatcse/2022/061122022
Subject(s) - agile software development , maternity care , scrum , nursing , medicine , information system , web application , medical prescription , health care , computer science , world wide web , software engineering , engineering , software , software development , electrical engineering , economics , programming language , economic growth
The developed web-based information management system is designed to improve the quality of maternal health care services and working conditions in a maternity clinic. Most of the maternity clinics in the Philippines still follow manual processes and utilize paper-based records. In Robles Maternity Clinic, the clinic encounters several problems like file duplication, file misplacement, unanswered inquiries, long process of appointment scheduling, unused and expired medicines. The researchers utilized Agile Scrum methodology for the development of the system. The researchers used mixed methods research to incorporate user feedback into the built solution. The data were collected through survey questionnaires which are distributed to IT professionals, College of Information and Communications Technology faculty, patients, and Robles Maternity Clinic staff and from semi-structured video interviews with a Robles Maternity Clinic representative. The findings of the study showed that the system is fully functioning and suitable to implement for a maternity clinic. The integrated functionalities in the system answer the problems that a maternity clinic encounters in its daily operation. prescriptions, and pending appointments.