Antenatal Care Management Information System (Atcmis), A Case Study Of Bismillah Medical Center (Bmc) - Kitebi

Abstract

In a typical antenatal care management information system, records
are usually kept for future reference, retrieval, reproduction and easy
management. The daily activities, schedules and events are also recorded.
If there is need to know the population of pregnant women, one may
need to count the records obtained from different files that contain
papers with information. The main objective of this project is to design
and develop a new system of managing information in antenatal care.
The system helps the hospital to enhances tidiness in record keeping.
It also reduces costs incurred in purchasing files, books and papers
for individual entities. The system manages records of doctors and
pregnant women and their children. The system allows the user to book
appointment, print appointment letter and keep records. In this study,
qualitative and quantitative research design approaches were used. This
is because the research aimed at obtaining non biased data from various
respondents using both numerical and non-numerical figures such as
feelings and emotions. The research design which was used for software
development was the rapid application development (RAD) model. It is
based on prototyping and iterative development with no specific planning
involved. It also focuses on gathering user requirements, early testing of
the prototype by the customer using the iterative concept, re use of the
existing component and continuous integration. RAD was preferred
because requirement would change during project. It is suitable for short
term projects that may require quick delivery. By using RAD, it was easier
to measure progress of the project.