Web-based Data Management System Research Articles

Comparative evaluation of novel screening strategies for colorectal cancer screening in China (TARGET-C): a study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial

IntroductionScreening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is effective in reducing the disease burden. However, high-level evidence from randomised controlled trials on the effectiveness of CRC screening modalities is still lacking. We...

PENGEMBANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI MANAJEMEN PARIWISATA BERBASIS WEB

Tourism is a field that is currently developing. This is supported by the wealth of Indonesia's natural potential which is known as the emerald equator. But not all tourism area information can be obtained easily. Because so far tourism promotion still uses pamphlets, leaflets or brochures. This can be overcome by developing a system that can be accessed by everyone by utilizing Information Technology. The aim of the research is to produce a Web-based tourism management information system. System development method is a prototyping model by utilizing PHP programming and MySQL database. The results of the system development resulted in a Web-based tourism management information system with a case study in the South Coastal Region of West Sumatra Province that could help tourism agencies in developing regional tourism.

Rancang Bangun Aplikasi e-CRM Alfamart Batam Dengan Metode Extreme Programming

This can make irresponsible parties libel the company because everyone or customers who join it can read and comment freely on what the customer complained about. Therefore, PT Indoritel Makmur International Tbk (Indomaret) Batam is advised to have an application that can arrange and provide services to complaints or criticism and customer suggestions. To overcome these problems then designed a web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information system. This design aims to facilitate customers in delivering criticism and suggestions or complaints to the service company. This design uses UML modeling diagram (Unifed Modeling Language) such as, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Class Diagram and Sequence Diagram. In addition, the technologies used in this design system such as Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. The end result of this design is a Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information system that can be used to manage customer complaints submitted to PT Indoritel Makmur International Tbk (Indomaret) Batam. The Extreme Programming method is the most widely used approach to software development

Evaluation of Drug Management Information System to Improve Quality and Users Satisfaction: Case Study at a Primary Health Center

Drug and supplies management plays an important role in health systems. A web-based drug management information system, Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Obat (SIPO) was developed to support interaction and communication among the internal entities of a district health office (DHO), including primary health centers (PHC). Using a qualitative approach, the objective of this descriptive study is to assess SIPO's performance in terms of success in addressing problems related to drug and medical supplies management. The results indicate that SIPO has a positive impact for both PHCs and the DHO. The result found that the users are satisfied with the system. One element that needs to be improved is integration ability; currently, SIPO cannot connect to other health-related information systems. Generally, SIPO is considered to have a positive impact, both individually and on the organization.

Hispanic Dementia Family Caregiver's Knowledge, Experience, and Awareness of Self-Management: Foundations for Health Information Technology Interventions.

As a first step toward developing a web-based Family-Health Information Management System intervention, we explored Hispanic dementia family caregiver's knowledge, use, and awareness of self-management principles and skills to address health and health care needs for themselves and the person with dementia (PWD). Twenty caregivers and 11 caregiver counselors attended an English or Spanish language focus group ranging from 4 to 6 participants. We conducted a directed content analysis informed by Lorig and Holman's conceptualization of self-management. A complement of six skills (i.e., problem solving, decision making, resource utilization, patient-provider partnership, action planning, and self-tailoring) to achieve one of three tasks (i.e., emotional, medical, and role management) can fully represent Hispanic dementia family caregivers' ability to self-manage health and health care needs. While not prominent in our study, caregivers and caregiver counselors pointed out existing and potential uses of personal consumer technology to schedule reminders and search for resources. A broad conceptualization of self-management may be necessary to understand Hispanic dementia family caregiver's ability and needs to address emotional, medical, and role challenges of caregiving. These findings and advances in the use of consumer health information technology support the development of self-management caregiver interventions.

E-Transcript Management System Using Blockchain Technology

Over the years, record keeping was done manually, keeping paper-based documents of all students’ academic information. This system however has proven inefficient because it could not cater for unforeseen circumstances like fire accident, house demolishing or even the most obvious one - the student’s record going missing. Researchers have come up with more effective ways of solving the paper problem, which led to several web-based student information management systems. However, these researchers did not fully eradicate the paper problem because the process still required an initial printing, then scanning of academic records which served as inputs into the system. Also, there was an increase in the occurrence of service unavailability because all storage and processes came from the same location, making the server vulnerable to unforeseen circumstances like power outage, loss of network connection and system malfunction. This research work however aims at implementing an E-transcript management system using blockchain technology, which is capable of eliminating the paper problem whilst ensuring that users experienced service uptime round the clock.

What happens to migrant tuberculosis patients who are transferred out using a web-based system in China?

BackgroundIn China, internal migrants constitute one-fifth of tuberculosis (TB) patients registered for treatment in web-based TB information management system (TBIMS). Though China added a specific module in the web-based TBIMS in 2009, web-based transfer-out is not specifically recommended in the national guidelines.ObjectiveIn this country wide study among all registered migrant TB patients (2014–2015) that were transferred out using web-based TBIMS in China, to determine the i) timing of transfer-out in relation to period of treatment; ii) delay and attrition during transfer interval (between transfer-out and transfer-in); and iii) extent and risk factors for ‘not evaluated’ as the treatment outcome.MethodsThis was a cohort study involving review of web-based TBIMS data. Modified Poisson regression was used to build a predictive model for risk factors of ‘not evaluated’ as the treatment outcome.ResultsAmong 7 284 patients, 5 900 (81.0%) were transferred out during the first two months after initiation of treatment or before treatment initiation and 7 088 (97.3%) patients had arrived at transfer-in unit. The median transfer interval was three (interquartile range: 0–14) days. Sixteen percent (1 176/7 284) patients had ‘not evaluated’ as their treatment outcome. ‘Not evaluated’ contributed to 66% of the unfavourable outcomes. Patients transferred from referral hospitals, migrated from out of prefecture, transferred out of prefecture, with sputum smear negative pulmonary TB, with TB pleurisy and with long delay between symptom onset and treatment initiation had significantly higher risk of ‘not evaluated’ as the outcome.ConclusionWeb-based transfer helped as the delay and attrition during the transfer interval was quite short and treatment outcomes of more than four-fifths of transferred out migrant TB patients were available with transfer-out BMU. Once strategies to address the independent predictors of ‘not evaluated’ treatment outcome are devised, China may consider mandatory use of web-based TBIMS for transferring out migrant TB patients.

ELit: a Research Management Information System

eLit is a web-based research management information system developed using CodeIgniter programming and MySQL database. eLit developed to use at Universitas Negeri Makassar and universities in Indonesia in general. This information system has entered in the second year in its development. This Information System developed with systems-based life development (SDLC). It is expected that with this eLit, the management of research at Makassar State University is based on information technology.

Patient and health system delays before registration among migrant patients with tuberculosis who were transferred out in China

BackgroundEarly diagnosis and treatment is vital for effective tuberculosis (TB) management especially among migrant populations who are a vulnerable group. We aimed to study factors associated with delay before registration at country level among registered migrant TB patients in China (2014–15) who were transferred out (during treatment) through web-based TB information management system (TBIMS).MethodsThis was a cross sectional study involving review of TBIMS data. Delays (in days) were classified as follows: patient delay (from symptom onset to first doctor visit), health system delay (from first doctor visit to treatment initiation, divided into health system diagnosis and treatment delay before and after date of diagnosis respectively), diagnosis delay (from symptom onset to diagnosis) and total delay (from symptom onset to treatment initiation). Linear regression was used to build a predictive model (forward stepwise) for the socio-demographic, clinical and health system related factors associated with delay: one model for each type of delay. Delays were log transformed and included in the model.ResultsThe median (IQR) patient delay, health system delay and total delay was 16 (6, 34), two (0, 6) and 22 (11, 41) days respectively. Factors associated with long patient, diagnosis and total delay were: female gender, age ≥ 65 years, sputum smear positive pulmonary TB and registration at referral hospital. Treatment initiation delay was significantly higher among those registered in referral hospitals, unemployed and previously treated. Among migrant patients having permanent residence out of province, health system diagnosis delay was significantly higher while treatment initiation delay after diagnosis was significantly lower when compared to patients having permanent residence within the prefecture.ConclusionAmong migrant population with TB, patient delay contributed to the total delay. The factors identified including the need for improved coordination between referral hospitals and national programme have to be addressed if China has to end TB.

Development of Academic Assessment Management Information System (Case Study: KB & TK Permata Iman)

Education becomes an important thing to advance a nation. Therefore, everyone must follow the education level. One of education level is early childhood education. KB & TK Permata Iman which was established in 2005 is a private educational institution and focus on early childhood education. In learning evaluation, KB & TK Permata Iman still use conventional method. The conventional method takes much time because teachers need to collect daily grade until the end of a semester for final grade calculation and prepare the results in grade book. The semester learning evaluation process can be shortened and simplified using a web-based academic assessment management information system. The system can store, directly perform calculations when teachers add students’ grade and make grade book from saved grade. From the testing result, the time efficiency increased to 94.94% when evaluating semester learning using the system and it can help the teacher to save time and do another task.

Current State of Collections Management Strategies, Standards and Procedures in the Entomology Department at the Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa

The Durban Natural Science Museum (DNSM) is located in the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Its entomology collection is one of three main collections at the museum. The collection consists of 141,000 dried specimens and encompasses 25 of the 29 known insect orders. Most of the specimens originate from South Africa however there is also a small percentage which has international origins. Collection growth is perpetuated by field collection trips and donations. In the recent past, DNSM was afforded the opportunity, through the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) via the Natural History Collections (NHC) Funding Instrument, to digitise insect type specimens and move the entomology research database from Microsoft Access to the web-based data management system, Specify 7. These developments have improved accessibility to the collection especially by those who do not have direct contact and access to the collection. In preparation for the migration to Specify 7, the specimen data was cleaned and standardised by means of an open source online tool, OpenRefine. The tool enabled the analysis and correction of data using an automated process which allowed for maximum productivity. Henceforth, we will ensure that the errors encountered during the data cleaning process will not be repeated. This will be achieved by training data capturers on correct formatting standards and using pick lists in the new database management system to foster consistency. On-going collections care is a core component of the DNSM, however a collections management policy is lacking and therefore such procedures differ somewhat across the three core departments. With regards to the entomology department, temperature and humidity monitoring efforts and mould prevention, detection and collection recovery occur regularly. Durban is a coastal city, and the characteristic high humidity is of great concern because it facilitates mould development on the specimens. Regular monitoring procedures mitigate such outbreaks. The DNSM has joined South Africa’s newly launched Natural Science Collections Facility (NSCF) which is a network of institutions which maintain zoological, botanical and paleontological collections. The NSCF, in consultation with institution representatives, has initiated the development of a collections management policy document which will be adopted by the DNSM as one of its sub-policies once it has been passed. The Durban Natural Science Museum will continue to strive for international best practises in collections management.

SISTEM INFORMASI PENGELOLAAN NILAI MAHASISWA BERBASIS WEB PADA STMIK STIKOM INDONESIA

The scores management system conducted by the STMIK STIKOM Indonesia institution is still done manually, where the lecturer writes in the form of physical or paper assessment which is then re-input by the staff of the Academic Administration Bureau (BAAK) into the existing system. This has an impact on the ineffectiveness and inefficiency in the process of scores management and presentation in the form of report on the recapitulation of values that require long enough for the students. It takes a computerized system in the management of values that can accelerate the process of scores management, where the lecturers directly perform input and scores management into a system that is synchronized with the academic system as well as information in the form of a report of value to the party in need. The system to be designed and built is a web-based student information management system. In this study, the main objective is to facilitate lecturers and staff in the management of student scores and manufacture of computerized assessment report recapitulation.

Rancang Bangun Sistem Informasi Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Berbasis Web

This can make irresponsible parties libel the company because everyone or customers who join it can read and comment freely on what the customer complained about. Therefore, PT Indoritel Makmur International Tbk (Indomaret) Batam is advised to have an application that can arrange and provide services to complaints or criticism and customer suggestions. To overcome these problems then designed a web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information system. This design aims to facilitate customers in delivering criticism and suggestions or complaints to the service company. This design uses UML modeling diagram (Unifed Modeling Language) such as, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Class Diagram and Sequence Diagram. In addition, the technologies used in this design system such as Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. The end result of this design is a Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information system that can be used to manage customer complaints submitted to PT Indoritel Makmur International Tbk (Indomaret) Batam. The Extreme Programming method is the most widely used approach to software development.

DINA: Open Source and Open Services - A Modern Approach for Sustainable Natural History Collection Management Systems

In the natural history community a high diversity of collection management systems exist. This enables institutions to choose from a large variety of systems, but this choice requires extensive effort to evaluate and commit to an appropriate system to cover all long-term requirements. As the different kinds of natural history data generated by a given domain and associated research-related data can typically not be handled within a single system, most institutions have several specialized software components and consequently have to cope with serious limitations in interacting and querying across the systems. This reality is costly and not sustainable. Further, even if a monolithic system would cover all needs, being dependent on only one software and vendor holds a relatively high risk in assuring long-term maintenance. The DINA consortium ("DIgital Information system for NAtural history data", https://dina-project.net) is attempting to address these challenges by using a distributed open-source development model across multiple institutions. The goal is to produce an open-source web-based information management system for natural history data developed and maintained in a community-driven approach by several large institutions with dedicated resources. DINA was founded in 2014 by six natural history collection institutions in Europe and North America and is open to new members. The DINA system is designed as a mesh of several web-based modules. The conceptual basis for this ecosystem is a compilation of comprehensive guidelines for application programming interfaces (APIs) to guarantee the interoperability of its components. Thus, all DINA components can be modified or even replaced by other components without crashing the rest of system as long as they are DINA compliant. Furthermore, the modularity enables the institutions to host only the components they need. DINA focuses on an open-source software philosophy and on community-driven open development, so the contributors share their development resources and expertise outside of their own institutions. Consequently, this approach reduces both, individual costs and risks, and increases the sustainability of the system. We will present an overview of DINA focusing on the open-source software philosophy, our current achievements, challenges and future developments.

A Web-Based Management Information System for Human Resources in Selected Universities of Duhok Province

Today, all managers use the information system to manage their organization efficiently and effectively. Moreover, a management information system (MIS) is a type of computerized information systems. Hence, human resource management information system (HRMIS) has a fast processing to produce accurate information within the organization environment. Therefore, many researchers proposed numerous HRMISs for university campuses. However, some universities, including Kurdistan Region universities are still relying paper-based system in managing their human resources. Based on that, this study aims to identify and analyze current systems which are used for managing and accessing human resource information in the university campus. Further, the study tries to design a web-based HRMIS based on the requirements achieved from aforementioned aim. The data collection of this study has been carried out at three universities, as a case study, in Duhok province. A mixed method of data collection was done. Then, the qualitative method of data collection conducted using interviews and observation instruments. Also, the quantitative method conducted using system usability scale (SUS) to evaluate the designed web-based HRMIS. Further, the analysis of collected data was based on the strategic planning technique using SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats points. Then, the requirements of designing a proposed web-based HRMIS were achieved. After implementing of the proposed system, the evaluation results of SUS were conducted to be acceptable (i.e. total score is 72.03%) based on the end-user viewpoints. Further, the reliability of the proposed HRMIS will be conducted at the University by using reliability measurement tools after implementing such system for a period of time.

Prior malignancies in patients harboring glioblastoma: an institutional case-study of 2164 patients.

More patients are surviving long-term following a cancer diagnosis and as such are at risk for second malignancies. As the most common primary brain tumor, glioblastoma (GBM) will not infrequently occur in this population. No study has examined the incidence of prior cancer (PC) in patients harboring GBM. Here we evaluate the epidemiological features, as well as the molecular and clinical characteristics of GBM as a second cancer. Utilizing a web-based cancer data management system at our institution, we identified 2164 patients harboring GBM from 2007 to 2014. We collected baseline demographic, molecular, and clinical data. Univariate analysis was performed to compare the cohort of GBM patients with and without PC diagnosis. Survival differences were analyzed with Kaplan-Meier and log-rank testing. A Cox-proportional hazards model was fit for multivariable analysis. 170 patients (7.9%) harboring GBM had a PC diagnosis. The median interval between diagnoses was 79 months. The most common pathologies were breast (18.8%) and prostate (18.8%) cancer. Patients with a PC were older at the time of GBM diagnosis than those without PC (66 vs. 59 years, p < 0.001) and were more likely to be white (88.2 vs. 72.8%, p < 0.001). Patients with PC were more likely to harbor an EGFR (20 vs. 12.3%, p < 0.001) or MGMT mutation (17.6 vs. 11.6%, p < 0.001). Median survival was 13 months in the PC cohort and 15 months in the cohort without PC (p = NS). Age, KPS, and diagnosis year were the only factors which influenced outcome in multivariable analysis. Patients who develop GBM following a prior malignancy constitute ~8% of patients with GBM. Despite significant molecular differences these two cohorts appear to have a similar overall prognosis and clinical course. Thus, whether or not a patient harbors a malignancy prior to diagnosis of GBM should not exclude him or her from aggressive treatment or for consideration of novel investigational therapies.

Development and application of WEB-based information management system for chronic schistosomiasis patients

To improve the management level of patients' information of schistosomiasis control stations in Nanchang City, the B/S three-layer architecture and ASP+SQL technology were applied to formulate the WEB-based management system of chronic schistosomiasis patients' information, so as to achieve the information sharing of chronic schistosomiasis among schistosomiasis control stations.

Drug pricing and reimbursement information management: processes and decision making in the global economy

ABSTRACTBackground: Cost-containment initiatives are re-shaping the pharmaceutical business environment and affecting market access as well as pricing and reimbursement decisions. Effective price management procedures are too complex to accomplish manually. Prior to February 2013, price management within Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd was done manually using an Excel database. The system was labour intensive, slow to update, and prone to error. An innovative web-based pricing information management system was developed to address the shortcomings of the previous system.Development: A secure web-based system for submitting, reviewing and approving pricing requests was designed to: track all pricing applications and approval status; update approved pricing information automatically; provide fixed and customizable reports of pricing information; collect pricing and reimbursement rules from each country; validate pricing and reimbursement rules monthly. Several sequential phases of development emphasized planning, time schedules, target dates, budgets and implementation of the entire system. A test system was used to pilot the electronic (e)-pricing system with three affiliates (four users) in February 2013.Outcomes: The web-based system was introduced in March 2013, currently has about 227 active users globally and comprises more than 1000 presentations of 150 products. The overall benefits of switching from a manual to an e-pricing system were immediate and highly visible in terms of efficiency, transparency, reliability and compliance.Conclusions: The e-pricing system has improved the efficiency, reliability, compliance, transparency and ease of access to multinational drug pricing and approval information.

Web-Based Emergency Management Information System for Landslides Occurrences

Landslides cause significant human and environmental damage, as well as unpredictable damage to structures and buildings. This paper presents the development and application of a web-based system for risk management in landslide-related emergency preparedness. This system allows for easy access to information, even in hard-to-reach regions, by integrating mobile internet devices, like cell phones and tablets, with GPS systems, without requiring cartography or geoprocessing for its operation. Furthermore, in cases of imminent risk, the system can help prioritize the emergency response, so that scarce response resources can be allocated to the most vulnerable areas. A case study is carried out, demonstrating the benefits and difficulties of implementing this system for emergency response decision-making in urban scenarios with geotechnical risks.

MASTR-MS: a web-based collaborative laboratory information management system (LIMS) for metabolomics

BackgroundAn increasing number of research laboratories and core analytical facilities around the world are developing high throughput metabolomic analytical and data processing pipelines that are capable of handling hundreds to thousands of individual samples per year, often over multiple projects, collaborations and sample types. At present, there are no Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) that are specifically tailored for metabolomics laboratories that are capable of tracking samples and associated metadata from the beginning to the end of an experiment, including data processing and archiving, and which are also suitable for use in large institutional core facilities or multi-laboratory consortia as well as single laboratory environments.Results Here we present MASTR-MS, a downloadable and installable LIMS solution that can be deployed either within a single laboratory or used to link workflows across a multisite network. It comprises a Node Management System that can be used to link and manage projects across one or multiple collaborating laboratories; a User Management System which defines different user groups and privileges of users; a Quote Management System where client quotes are managed; a Project Management System in which metadata is stored and all aspects of project management, including experimental setup, sample tracking and instrument analysis, are defined, and a Data Management System that allows the automatic capture and storage of raw and processed data from the analytical instruments to the LIMS.ConclusionMASTR-MS is a comprehensive LIMS solution specifically designed for metabolomics. It captures the entire lifecycle of a sample starting from project and experiment design to sample analysis, data capture and storage. It acts as an electronic notebook, facilitating project management within a single laboratory or a multi-node collaborative environment. This software is being developed in close consultation with members of the metabolomics research community. It is freely available under the GNU GPL v3 licence and can be accessed from, https://muccg.github.io/mastr-ms/.