Development of a Maternity Clinic Information Management System

Abstract

The developed web-based information management system is designed to improve the quality of maternal health care services and working conditions in a maternity clinic. Most of the maternity clinics in the Philippines still follow manual processes and utilize paper-based records. In Robles Maternity Clinic, the clinic encounters several problems like file duplication, file misplacement, unanswered inquiries, long process of appointment scheduling, unused and expired medicines. The researchers utilized Agile Scrum methodology for the development of the system. The researchers used mixed methods research to incorporate user feedback into the built solution. The data were collected through survey questionnaires which are distributed to IT professionals, College of Information and Communications Technology faculty, patients, and Robles Maternity Clinic staff and from semi-structured video interviews with a Robles Maternity Clinic representative. The findings of the study showed that the system is fully functioning and suitable to implement for a maternity clinic. The integrated functionalities in the system answer the problems that a maternity clinic encounters in its daily operation. prescriptions, and pending appointments.