National Intensive Car e Surveillance System ( NICS ) Fo r Ministry Of Health, Sri Lanka

Abstract

The National Intensive Care Surveillance is health service oriented organization established under health ministry of Sri Lanka. This system provides its service to overall ICUs of hospitals in Sri Lanka. NICS handle hundreds of patient data and ICU bed details per day, and provide suggestions to ICU consultant or ICU doctor to transfer patients to the nearest and best location. It has been running on a manual system since it s initiation but now they use simple stand-alone prototype as the supportive system. The web based National Intensive Care Surveillance System (NICS) is built to overcome some of the problems and inefficiencies of the current manual system and prototype. This solution is built in a way to cover the overall administration processes, NICS central person s processes and ICU user processes such as: patient data maintain, ICU bed data management, NICS person s and ICU member s detail management, ICU bed suggestion, keep in touch patient transfers, management report generation, provide bed availability island wide. The system has adapted Model View Controller (MVC) architecture with struts framework and Object Oriented techniques. In addition, Unified Modeling Language (UML) was used for analysis and design. Java which is a server-side language was used to build the system and Apache tomcat 7.0 has been used as the web server, JQuery, JavaScript, Java Server Pages (JSP) and HTML are used as front-end development languages, meanwhile MySQL was used to handle databases and which is plugged-in to the backend through hibernate. Since this is a web based system, it could be operated either in Windows or Linux environment. The web based National Intensive Care Surveillance System has been designed to fulfil the user and system requirements. The system would assist the NICS organization to monitor and manage their services anywhere of the world. It could also help to improve quality of services through this newly introduced web based system.