Designing Web Based Social Health Insurance Information System for Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency

Alemu, Natnael (2016) Designing Web Based Social Health Insurance Information System for Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Social health insurance scheme is a mechanism of distributing or pooling of risk among individuals. The scheme can be used to reduce individual burdens and to provide service at a subsidized cost among payroll based formal sector. The Social health insurance scheme involves three stakeholders these are the insurer, the insured and the service provider. The use of information and communication technology to create cooperative working environment between the stakeholders in the scheme can improve the accessibility and use of health care services at a point of service irrespective of geographical and time location. This can help to improve the use and access of citizens to the primary and advanced health care services. The application of ICT to the major business process of health insurance enables, an ease of access for the various health insurance services the Ethiopian health insurance agency provides to the employees. The main objective of the project is to assess the existing paper based social health insurance system and design a user friendly web based social health insurance information system for Ethiopian health insurance agency The project was limited geographically in Addis Ababa and conceptually to the designing of the web based social health insurance information system in the formal sector. The project employed an object oriented system analysis and design technique with different data collection tools i.e. (interview, observation, relevant document review) to collect the data required for system design. Analysis and design of the proposed system was done using the UML, Microsoft Visio 2013. While MySQL Server and Dreamweaver 5.5 development environments have been used to develop the database and the prototype of the web based system respectively. The designed and developed information system of Social health insurance for the Ethiopian health insurance Agency comprises of different functionalities like employee(the insured) registration, validation, claim adjudication, insurance registration components which will help to transform the paper based manual system to efficient, increased geographical coverage and time unconstrained system. The web based social health insurance information system could enhance accessibility of services and information or data transaction possible with the reduction of the unnecessary time consuming process. Most importantly the users access to the system be user friendly, save data, have appropriate notifications and manage incomplete data display with appropriate layout and access path.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Emmanuel Ndorimana
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2018 09:53
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2018 09:53
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7710

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