Designing a Web-Based Pharmacy Management System for Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical Colleg
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2016-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Today information communication technology plays a great role in different fields of the health care industry; among these medication management is one. With the aid of Information Technology the pharmacy management system process has improved. Computerized pharmacy management system facilitates drug procurement, drug inventory and tracking, drug distribution and its information management. But it is common to observe that these processes are still performed manually in majority of Addis Ababa government hospitals. This manual approach of pharmacy management system has a lot of problem associated with it. The problem can range from problem of handling voluminous file to poor stock management.
Objective: This project attempt to design a web based pharmacy management system that provides accurate and reliable pharmacy management system for Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College by designing cost effective and user friendly application.
Methodology: To build the system on well -formed and verifiable user requirement, a total of 30 participants were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The data was collected through face to face interview using semi-structured open ended questionaries’ and by reviewing existing documents. To this end, the necessary data was gathered and system requirements are identified. The project followed waterfall system analysis and design approach. In addition to model the analysis and design of the proposed system UML modeling technique is used. The system prototype is developed using both HTML and Php and the database is designed using MySQL database management system. Microsoft Visio 2013 and Adobe Dreamweaver cc 2015 are used as a tool to model the user interface prototype and to design the UML diagrams.
Result: The system helps the user to easily view available stock and expiry date of drugs. It can also use to request, receive, and issue drugs between the pharmacy departments and store. It also has a feature to generate reliable report for problem solving and better decision making. However, drug procurement process of the hospital is not included in the design because of resource limitation.
Conclusion: These web-based pharmacy management systems facilitate the work of the organization and help to improve patient care. But this project work shows only the system prototype of pharmacy management system. The hospital hardware and internet availability is a good opportunity in the development and implementation of the full system.
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Web-Based Pharmacy Management System