The Development of Health Care and Health Officer’s Databases at Buton District Health Office
Abstract
Rasdiyanti, Hari Kusnanto, Anis Fuad
Background: The development of information system is aimed to support the availability of data and information for health management team, administrator and health services, and the development of comprehensive information networking. The distribution of health services is supported by accessibility its structure and infrastructure which become the main factor in improving the access of the society to the health services. The insufficient of health care and the lack of health staff office are the barrier in the accomplishment of the health care development in Buton, especially in the remote area.
Objectives: The research was aimed to identify and to develop computerized health care and health staff office’s databases in order to avoid redundancy and fragmentation data at Buton District Health Office.
Methods: The research used qualitative research with action research approach. The collaboration between researcher and respondent is needed to develop health care and health staff office databases according to the user necessity and aspiration. Data and information is gained by observation, document interpretation, and in-deep interview.
Results: The development of this databases had resulted 93 tables/entities which consist of 26 data tables, 37 subset tables, 1 join table and 29 validation tables. The implementation of databases structure simply utilized MySQL databases to know the completeness and accuracy of data, and the rapidity of acquired information, and also easiness for data input and data access.
Conclusion: The user expected that the implementation of MySQL databases will support the examination, formulation, and policy decision, help to improve the health officer services, support the program planning and support the availability of data collection of health care and health staff officer.
Key words: databases, user, MySQL, health, services