Antenatal Care Management Information System (Atcmis).

Abstract

According to WHO (2015) the adoption of health informatics can greatly improve operational performance of health facilities. Health informatics is used to describe the acquiring, storing, retrieving and using healthcare information to bring about better collaboration among patient’s various healthcare providers (US National library of Medicine, 2014). Expecting mothers have been either abused or rejected to be worked on by midwives who especially in many cases need money so they can attend to mother's so they can handle them well during labor and childbirth Rujumba ( 2013).

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.