Abstract:
Antenatal and postnatal processes and services is a component of
Hospital Management Systems that has been given very little attention. Most
healthcare institution carries out the antenatal and postnatal processes manually
and keeps records of the whole processes on paper. In most cases in most
hospital, records kept on paper and files get missing or misplaced leading to the
loss of important records of clients which would have been very helpful for future
pregnancies and clinical diagnosis. Report generation and statistical figures are
difficult to generate with the manual based system. Data errors, security, and
privacy are another problems associated with the manual system. In this paper,
the antenatal and postnatal services were incorporated into the Hospital
Management System of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto with a view to
reducing the issues and inconsistencies encountered with the manual procedure.
Dreamweaver, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML and MySQL are the
technological tools used to automate the incorporated antenatal and postnatal
services in the system. The usefulness of the proposed system was evaluated
using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire and some clinical users.
The experimental evaluation shows that the developed system is beneficial to the
clinic and the general public based on the result obtained in this study. The
results also demonstrated that the developed system can fit into the antenatal
and postnatal routine of many hospitals with little or no modification.
