Health information system of St. Paul University Philippines

Abstract

This research and development project aimed to examine
current processes and transactions made in the health services of St.
Paul University Philippines in order to gather pertinent data for the
development of a proposed record management system. This proposed
system aimed at improving the efficiency of the services of the clinic
particularly in the creation, organization, retrieval, and updating of
health information of its clientele. Ten (10) experts in Information
Technology and five (5) clinic staff were the study participants. The
interview with the clinic staff revealed that the existing manual
system performed poorly with regards to records management in the
clinic. With this, they proposed for an automated system to improve
the efficiency of managing clinic records to facilitate the creation,
organization, retrieval, and updating of information in the clinic
transactions. Based on these results, the Health Information System
for St. Paul University Philippines was developed. The proposed system
was pilot tested and was evaluated by the clinic staff and IT experts
in terms of its functionality. Furthermore, the participants offered
suggestions to enhance the system further. From the evaluation
results, it can be deduced that the proposed system is effective as this
improved the recording system of the clinic.