Materia Medica Malaysiana

Medical info system for UPM
Source: The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: Xybase MSC (M) Sdn Bhd said it has developed a medical information system for Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) that has already gone live.

The UPM e-Klinik system is a complete information system that takes care of the medical information needs of the students, staff as well the general public within the compounds of the campus, the company said in a statement.

"It took us about eight months to develop the e-Klinik system, including user acceptance and functional tests backed by a team of only 15 professionals," said Abdul Muhaimy Shafee, the Xybase project manager currently based at UPM.

e-Klinik was built as a web-based application -- accessible via Internet Explorer -- which operates on a 24/7 basis, primarily catering for medical and dental consultations.

It has been integrated with other systems within UPM -- the IHRAMS human resource and payroll system, the SMP student information system and the EIS statistical reporting system.

Among the benefits of the e-Klinik system is that it enables the clinic consultation and medication processes to be as paperless as possible, from patient information, medication disbursement, setting appointments to viewing stock level of drugs and online reporting.

Patients no longer have to carry their medical papers from one division of the clinic to another. All the information is disseminated via the portal.

For example, instead of writing x-ray instructions on a form and getting the patient to pass the form to the x-ray department, the radiographer can access the instruction via e-Klinik. All records are kept in its database. This ensures records are updated instantly and are kept securely, Xybase MSC claimed.

e-Klinik runs on a Sun Fire 280R Server, operates on the Sun Solaris 8 operating system alongside the Oracle 9i relational database management system and Orion Application server.

The system was developed using Oracle 9i J Developer.