Medical Gases Management Information System For Department of Health Services

Abstract

The Department of the Health Services, Southern Province is the central controlling point of all the government health care institutions. The purchase, distribution, monitoring, resource allocation of medical gases that is used in all government health care institutions are managed by the department. Currently the system is managed as a manual and a paper based system and hence there is no good quality real time data available to make informed decisions. As the system involves transaction of the whole province, it is very difficult to handle data manually. The amount of manpower involved in the management of medical gases is a grown to a huge burden over the years. Most of Issues arising due to miscommunication leads to frequent conflicts between all levels of stakeholders. Object oriented technique was used for system analysis and design. The system developed with Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and Unified Modeling Language (UML). Java (J2EE) was used to build the system and Glassfish has been used as the web server. MYSQL is used as the database management system. The result was a web based system which is platform independent and accessed over Internet. After the alpha and beta testing, a pilot was launched in three institutions. After the debugging and improvements, an internal circular was issued making the system officially to be used within the provincial department. Currently the application is run on day to day practice on eight institutions and as the infrastructure is improved, it will be implemented in all the health care institutions of the Southern Province. After about one year of implementation, a complete evaluation will be performed and it the system proved to be efficient and cost effective, it will be suggested to be used at the national level.