Antenatal Management Information System (Case Study: China-Uganda Friendship Hospital, Naguru)

Abstract

To eradicate fetal deaths and stillbirths, the World Health Organization (WHO) set up antenatal care guidelines to help expectant mothers through this period. In Uganda today, it is estimated that at least 90% of the expectant mothers receive antenatal care, and with such a large number of people receiving this service, data is collected manually with pen, which makes it a long process and cumbersome to search specific records during emergencies and analysis of data for proper decision making. Therefore, there is a need for an antenatal management information system. The software is sectioned into registration, triage and consultation. The records officer handles registration of patients, patient visits, viewing and printing patient statistics. The senior clinical officer handles triaging the patient and capturing their vitals, viewing and printing patient statistics. The head midwife handles the monthly progress examination, and views and prints patient statistics. All these processes happen in real time. This system is designed to overcome the problems identified in the current antenatal management information system. The interfaces for the new system were implemented using JSP, Bootstrap and Javascript. PostgreSQL was also used for implementing the system database while Spring was used to create interactivity with the database. After the implementation, the new system was then tested and validated. When developing the system, the focus was on making the whole process of information management in the antenatal department faster, more convenient and efficient.