Abstract:
The tradition of healthcare technology management
in our country, Ethiopia, is one of the big problems affecting the
quality of healthcare practices as well as the financial
expenditure in different health institutions. This is because there
is no up to date system showing the status of healthcare
technology and the information of the healthcare technology
available in each specific healthcare setting. Even though some
hospital use file based (paper based) inventory system to manage
healthcare technology, it is not up to date and difficult to access
the history of each healthcare technology using this system. The
objective of this project is to replace manual inventory in
different hospitals by taking Jimma University specialized
hospital (JUSH) as a reference by implementing web based
inventory system. Supervision made in JUSH indicates that,
currently the hospital is using excel based medical equipment
inventory system and looking for advanced system. So based on
the objective of this research up to date inventory system is
developed using PHP programming language and Apache server.
The sample inventory data from the hospital is added to the
system for testing and the test was successful as it helps the user
perform each tasks i.e. adding inventory, displaying equipment
details, searching for specific equipment and updating each
equipment as desired.Finally even though the system is designed
for Jimma university specialized hospital, other hospitals in our
country can use thissystem to effectivelymanage their healthcare
technology assets for better health practice
