Learning Launch

Challenge:     Historically, clinical information system have suffered from lack of innovation and  purposely-built tools. If we compare this field to medicine or sports, we can easily see a  marked difference in the rate of development of new tools and methods. Our infirmary  has been using the manual processing of clinical services ever since the campus has  been established. With the growth of population of students each year, the infirmary is in  a dilemma in maintaining a reliable and accurate data. The infirmary also suffers from a  very time-consuming retrieval of student information for clinical purposes. The infirmary  does not implement any ICT-based application in managing and organizing student’s  record and rely heavily on paper-based system.     My challenge is to develop a system that is dedicated on the clinical information system  to make the management of student records be a lot easier, efficient, less time consuming  and reliable without sacrificing quality, data integrity, security, confidentiality and quick  and cost-effective way of guidance and counseling data management.     This project will be develop by a lone proponent but with the help of the clinical staff for  the collection of related data and reports. The timeline for this project should run for at  most 6 months to give the developer ample time to create a prototype of the technology.  The infirmary will help the developer in structuring the first prototype of the technology for  testing and evaluation. Once the prototype is done, It will pass through several testing  and debugging phase to ensure the technology is error-free before its implementation.    Selection:     As a lone developer, I have decided to use the learning launch tool. I believe this will help  me design a simple yet effective technology tool that will benefit the users in the  implementation of the system – easy to navigate, use and implement across platform.  Together with the clinical staff, we have gone through several design thinking activities to  come up with a working prototype. Doing this activity has helped us in selecting the  learning launch tool for the challenge. This tool will help me go through the process of  software development life cycle that will improve on our solution. The prototype will help  the developer and the clinical staff test system reliability and accuracy of data.     Application:     To address these problems experienced by the clinical staff, an ICT-based application  was developed. An ICT-based application that contains the essential elements of a paper- based record in clinical information system that is accurate, well organized, legible, readily  accessible and understandable for better quality service.    The system was run and tested using real data. The testing phase also serves as  checking for any input errors or code related errors. The record was based on the clinical

records of students as the test data for input. The system was also test in different  platform of ensure hardware and software compatibility. The system shows a positive  outcome as to its reliability, accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, organized data and  reports. The client has a satisfactory rating on the overall performance of the system  making his/her more productive.    Insight:    By applying the learning launch tool, the developer and the clinical staff has come up to  test the design and solution to the challenge. Through the learning process both the  developer and clinical staff has improved the application to meet user’s expectation. It is  through this process that the developer seen the improvement and revision based on the  need of the clinical staff that meets its clinical process. With the improved system, it was  mentioned to be one of the best practices of the infirmary in the improving of its services  to its clients.    Approach:     The learning launch is the appropriate tool for the system development. The developer  and the clinical staff reviewed the satisfactory performance of the system based on clients  feedback and would incorporate this insight into future launch designs as this is the most  effective and ideal way of approaching and implementing the solutions.

