National Medical Information Management System

Tab’e of content

Declaration

Approval

Acknowledgment

Table of content vi

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the study 1

1.2 Problem statement 3

1.3 General objective 3

1.4 Specific Objectives 3

1.5 Scope of the Study 3

1.6 Significance of the Study 4

LITERATURE REVIEW 5

2.1 Introduction 5

2.2 Privacy issues of medical records 5

2.2.1 Ensuring medical record privacy 7

2.3 Medical Languages 7

2.4 Medical Electronic Databases 8

2.5 Legal Aspects 10

2.6 National medical system perception in Uganda 11

METHODOLOGY 14

3.1 Introduction 14

3.2 Data collection tools 14

3.2.1 Questionnaire 14

3.2.2 Document Review 14

3.2.3 Interviews 15

3.3 Sampling Design 15

3.4 System Design Tools 15

3.4.1 Hierarchy Chart 15

3.4.2 Data Flow Charts 16

3.4.3 Entity Relationship Diagrams 16

3.5 Implementation Tools 16

3.5.1 PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) 16

3.5.2 Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) 16

3.5.3 Java script 16

3.5.4 MySQL 16

3.6 System testing tools 17

3.6.1 The black box functional method 17

3.6.2 Use of external experts 17

3.6.3 Prototyping 17

SYSTEM ANALYSIS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION 18

4.1 Introduction 18

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4.2 The current system.18

4.3 Requirements Specification 18

4.3.1 Functional Requirements is

4.3.2 User Requirements 19

4.3.3 System Requirements 19

4.4 System Design 19

4.4.1 System context 20

4.4.2 System control flow 22

Symbols used 22

Main entry program 22

Data capturing and editing routines 23

Figure 4.4 Data capturing and editing routines 23

Data search routine 23

Figure 4.5 Data Searching routine 23

4.4.2 Database design 24

PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS 30

5.1 Introduction 30

5.2 Data gathering / Requirement determination 30

5.2.1 Privacy issues 31

5.2.2 The importance of central medical data system 31

5.3 System Testing 31

5.3.1 The black box functional method 31

5.3.2 Use of external experts 32

5.3.3 Prototyping 32

CONCLUSION, SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION 33

6.1 Introduction 33

6.2 Summary/Conclusion 33

6.3 Limitations 33

6.4 Recommendations 33