Integrating Antenatal and Postnatal Pregnancy Services to Hospital Management System

Yusuf Mohammed Danlami,Hassan Mairoh,Abba Almu,Mohammed Kabiru Hamza

doi:10.22178/pos.39-3

Abstract

Antenatal and postnatal processes and services is a component of Hospital Management Systems that has been given very little attention. Most healthcare institution carries out the antenatal and postnatal processes manually and keeps records of the whole processes on paper. In most cases in most hospital, records kept on paper and files get missing or misplaced leading to the loss of important records of clients which would have been very helpful for future pregnancies and clinical diagnosis. Report generation and statistical figures are difficult to generate with the manual based system. Data errors, security, and privacy are another problems associated with the manual system. In this paper, the antenatal and postnatal services were incorporated into the Hospital Management System of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto with a view to reducing the issues and inconsistencies encountered with the manual procedure. Dreamweaver, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML and MySQL are the technological tools used to automate the incorporated antenatal and postnatal services in the system. The usefulness of the proposed system was evaluated using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire and some clinical users. The experimental evaluation shows that the developed system is beneficial to the clinic and the general public based on the result obtained in this study. The results also demonstrated that the developed system can fit into the antenatal and postnatal routine of many hospitals with little or no modification.

Highlights

Hospital systems are complex systems built in order to capture, store, organize, process and transmit patient’s records and to ease the various processes and activities within the hospital for the purpose of improving the quality, efficiency and performance of service delivery to the teaming population of patients within and outside the hospital [1]
The results show that the switch from the existing system to new system will go smoothly and the system won’t be rejected by the target audience but will be embraced based on the results obtained in this study
The antenatal and postnatal system is developed for the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Clinic

Summary

Introduction

Hospital systems are complex systems built in order to capture, store, organize, process and transmit patient’s records and to ease the various processes and activities within the hospital for the purpose of improving the quality, efficiency and performance of service delivery to the teaming population of patients within and outside the hospital [1]. The main purpose of any healthcare institution is to save lives by treating patients from various illnesses These sub-components mentioned above of any hospital system work hand in hand with each other to ensure patients safety and health condition. A normal or basic hospital routine on the treatment of patients is for patients to see a doctor after booking an appointment, patient diagnosis by a doctor, doctor gives prescription to patient, doctor sends a patient to either pharmacy to get prescribed drugs or to the lab for tests, doctor can admit patient and lots more All these processes when carefully observed form the various sub-components of a hospital management system mentioned earlier. This is to protect the baby from diseases that may hinder the healthy growth of the baby

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