Developing an Information System of Mother and Child Health Program at Tanjung Balai Municipality Health Office, North Sumatera
Abstract
Dwi Rahmi Zaki , Hari Kusnanto
Background:The objective of mother and child health program is to improve heath status of mother and child optimally. This objective could be supprted by the data and information availability which supported planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the provided health services. Sometimes, this mother and child health program has not been supported with a good information system for data recording, processing, and analysis. It also happened at Tanjung Balai Municipality Health Office.
Objective: Identifying the existed information system and developing a computer-based information system to ease process of data recording, processing, and analysis of mother and children health program at Tanjung Balai Municipality Health Office.
Methods: This was a qualitative study with action research approach. Information and data were gathered by observation, document review, and in-depth interview. The subject were 5 persons, consisted of the health office head, head division of public health maintenance, head section of family health, and 2 staff of mother and child health program.
Results: Prototype of mother and child health information system were developed based on the user needs of mother and child health reporting format, and facilities to make graphics and data analysis. Since the new system implementation, the reports availability could be more timely, accurate, and relevant.
Conclusion: Development of this information system at Tanjung Balai health Office delivered improvement to the efficiency of operational program. Mother and Child Health report could be presented more timely and accurate. In addition, the new system’s outputs were more qualified that the previous outputs with manual system.
Keywords: mother and child health, prototype, information system