LIMS@MRI - Laboratory Information Management System For Medical Research Institute

Abstract

Medical Research Institute is a government institute located in Borella and has more than 200 employees. The institute consists of six departments and all these faculties are headed by a Director General. Medical Research Institute was established to provide medical laboratory services to governmental and non governmental hospitals. MRI?s main responsibility is providing warning and information about incoming health issues which affected the whole country or several provinces after analyzing the reports and charts of patient test results. Even though the MRI is responsible for numerous complicated tasks and executing more than 60,000 patient tests per year, until the very recent times they have relied on a conventional manual file based system which needed extensive paper work. They have been using several off-the-shelf software packages for tasks such as record keeping and chart generation. Laboratory Information Management System is developed based on open source technologies. PHP is the main programming language used to develop the system. Unified Modeling Language (UML) was used for Analysis and Design. In Addition Object Oriented Concepts are also included into PHP to develop the system. MySQL is used as the database management system. Apache web server is used as the processing server. The architecture used for the system is MVC architecture, which stands for Model, View and Controller?. Primary goal of developing such a system is to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of managing information of patients and to provide better analytical decisions to government about incoming medical threats and ensure to provide quality and accurate services to the society.