Integrating Antenatal and Postnatal Pregnancy Services to Hospital Management System

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

Identity and Access Management System: a Web-Based Approach for an Enterprise

Managing digital identities and access control for enterprise users and applications remains one of the greatest challenges facing computing today. An attempt to address this issue led to the proposed security paradigm called Identity and Access Management (IAM) service based on IAM standards. Current approaches such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Central Authentication Service (CAS) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) lack comprehensive analysis from conception to physical implementation to incorporate these solutions thereby resulting in impractical and fractured solutions. In this paper, we have implemented Identity and Access Management System (IAMSys) using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which focuses on authentication, authorization, administration of identities and audit reporting. Its primary concern is verification of the identity of the entity and granting correct level of access for resources which are protected in either the cloud environment or on-premise systems. A phased approach methodology was used in the research where it requires any enterprise or organization willing to adopt this must carry out a careful planning and demonstrated a good understanding of the technologies involved. The results of the experimental evaluation indicated that the average rating score is 72.0 % for the participants involved in this study. This implies that the idea of IAMSys is a way to mitigating security challenges associated with authentication, authorization, data protection and accountability if properly deployed

Integrating Antenatal and Postnatal Pregnancy Services to Hospital Management System

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

Towards a wider application of the systems approach in information systems and software engineering

The chapter provides possible directions for the wider application of the systems approach to information systems development. Potential improvement of software development practices is linked by some leading experts to the application of more systemic ideas. However, the current state of the practice in software engineering and information systems development shows the urgent need for improvement through greater application of systems thinking

Program and project management - A demand bibliography

Bibliographical listing of recent works on program and project management and technique

SHORT AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF VARIATION IN THE BREEDINGENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOUR AND FITNESS TRAITS IN ACOLONIAL, CAVITY NESTING RAPTOR

The heterogeneity of breeding environment leads the evolution of different behavioural strategies that individuals undertake to guarantee their fitness and survival. Moreover, the cyclic nature of animal life determines that each set of decision made by individuals during reproduction could severely affect behaviour and fitness traits during their successive stages of life cycle. Among different species that have been studied to investigate these relationships, migratory birds are optimal model species, since the rigid scheduling of their life cycle exacerbates the associations established among breeding environmental variations, fitness and behaviour. In the present thesis, I investigated the possible effects of variation in the breeding environment on fitness and behavioural traits of a colonial, migratory, avian species the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), assessing possible effects during two different temporal scales: in the current breeding season (short-term effects) and/or during successive life stages (long-term effects). In the first part, I analysed short-term effects of breeding environmental variations, observing whether nest-site quality and food resource abundancy and distribution could affect fitness and behaviour of lesser kestrel. Firstly, I have investigated the strategy implemented by lesser kestrel during nest-site selection, and whether individual differences in the nest-site preference could affect fitness. Secondly, I have assessed whether food resource abundancy could limit lesser kestrel\u2019s breeding performance and whether the patchy prey distribution in the breeding environment could negatively affect their foraging behaviour and fitness. In the second part, I have investigated whether variation in breeding environment could affect lesser kestrel during successive stages of the life cycle. I therefore analysed whether breeding area continental distribution affects migratory behaviour and strategy of five European populations of lesser kestrel. The overall results reported in this thesis suggested that lesser kestrel suffers variations in the breeding environment that occur during the current breeding season, indeed I have assessed that individuals rely on public information gathered from the environment to choose the most suitable nest-site and to identify optimal foraging areas. Foraging strategies adopted by lesser kestrel during the breeding season have evolved to cope with the heterogeneous prey distribution and to limit intraspecific competition among individuals of the same and different colonies. Moreover, food resource abundancy mediates individual fitness according to parent body condition. Finally, despite the absence of any direct effects of lesser kestrel migratory connectivity on individual fitness, I observed that the continental distribution of the breeding site reflects the location of the non-breeding areas in Africa. This evidence highlighted that European populations remain separated during the African stay and thus are subjected to different abiotic and biotic traits with possible profound effects on population dynamics