Design and Planning of Information Support System for the Medical Unit of the Ethiopian Airlines
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1994-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
In today's societies, the significant role of information
in the overall national development process is being
increasingly appreciated . The health sector i s an
integral part of the national economy and the prosperity
of a nation greatly depends on the health of its people.
People should receive adequate health services so that
they can contribute their part to national development .
Quality health services can only be guaranteed with
qualified health pr ofessionals and these professi onals
depend on timely, precise and reliable information to
support their work. Such information can only be obtained
by establishin--g an eff-ec-ti-v-e .an-d efficient computer-based
information s~p ~~t system.
The work reported in this thesis is on the design and
d~ve~opment of a computer-based information support
system for the Medical Unit of the Ethiopian Airlines.
from the inf ormation obtained during the data collection
process (by interviewing, perusing document collections ,
and observation) for this study, it was noted that all
data processing and information handling activity in all
the functional areas of the Medical Unit of the Ethiopian
Airlines is being carried out using traditional manual
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Information Science