Designing an Integrated Licensing and Inspection Information System: The Case of Oromia Regional Health Bureau
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2014-11-04
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Professional licensing and facility inspection and licensing is one of the primary processes that
enables and ensures quality health product and service provision mechanism in order to promote
public health services. Oromia Regional Health Bureau renders these functions in its inspection
and licensing sub-process under the core process called health and health related services and
products quality regulation. Though the professional licensing alone is recently automated as part
of human resource information system it is neither integrated to the inspection service nor covers
all aspects of licensing like facility licensure.
The research project endeavoured to design and integrate those functions to pave the way for the
implementation so as to achieve efficient and flexible information system that offers the customers
and the staff better satisfaction.
A phased development, Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology of object-oriented
approach applied to the study of the design system. Interview and document analysis were used as
a main tool to capture the business system requirement along with observation. Unified Modeling
Language (UML) development techniques applied in the process of requirements capture, model
organization business system analysis and design. ArgoUML and Visio Software were employed
in analysis and design models diagramming.
Data captured and guideline and standard documents referred were illustrated using activity
diagram, use case diagrams, use case descriptions, sequence diagrams, state chart diagram,
deployment diagram in the analysis and design models as appropriate to model analysis and design
of the system under study. Evaluation and feedback were taken for consensus between the users
and the designer.
The researcher recommends the implementation of the design by the regional health bureau or any
concerned body including health related facility inspection and licensing that was not included
under current design to realize the benefit of the Information Communication Technology in the
inspection and licensing section.
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Designing an Integrated Licensing;Oromia Regional Health Bureau