Prototype Development of Open Source-Based Personnel Management Information System (SIMKA) at Pariaman Health Office in the Year of 2007
ABSTRACT
Jelita Alamsyah, Hari Kusnanto, Adreasta Meliala
Background: Pariaman Municipality’s Health Office is one of important institutions which support the quality of health care services. Until now, it has some problems about manual and conventional staff and health officers records, staff promotion program, and unsophisticated and incomplete staff data. Actually, government has already provided the SIMKA software for free, but it has not been implemented yet. The causes are the system is not open source so that it is difficult to update data, and there is no trained and skilled attendants to operate the system. Therefore, implementation of the open source-based SIMKA, perhaps, is helpful in monitoring human resources’ potentials.
Objective: The study was aimed to develop a system of staff management information at Pariaman Municipality’s Health Office in supporting the availability of managerial task implementation and improving the quality of decision making. It included needs assessment, prototype designing, prototype design implementation, and prototype design evaluation.
Methods: The study was a qualitative research with an action research method to explore the need of information deeply that would be analyzed, presented, and approved as design of staff’s information system.
Results: The result of the staff information system was the integrated and comprehensive data to produce a complete and comprehensive system. After the prototype implementation, there was positive responds from the management staff and related parties; they could access the data easier and faster only by inserting a code. The prototype affected the data processing which could be done efficiently, gathered unlimited data, quicker data browsing, and properly data saving.
Conclussion: Prototype by modern technology could improve the monitoring of staff activities, and the effectiveness of used application because the prototype was applicable. It is suggested that the staff sustain the system in order it can be used in a long time.
Keywords: Information System, Human Resources Management, Prototype.