Background of the Study

Background of the Study

Medicine

a substance that is used in treating disease or relieving pain

and that usually in the form of a pill or a liquid.

can be found in drugstores or pharmacies and barangay health

centers and can be purchased at a consumer based pricing.
has expirations due to its chemical compositions that
deteriorate over time.

expired medicines should properly be disposed and should not

be taken by any people as it can cause serious health condition
in reverse to its purpose.

Background of the Study

medicines are allocated in a manner that they will buy a bunch
of assorted medicines to stock and then they will keep it on
their upkeep.

Note: Knowing such assumptions that they can offer

wide varieties of medicines, one thing that a typical
drugstore or health center is losing something of
value....

Background of the Study

its the capacity to know if they

can sell that medicine at a limited
time because of expiration.

Background of the Study

In general
Some stores are having a hard time knowing if
the medicines in the area is suitable to store
not knowing if the medicine is needed on the
area. Preferably, if the medicine is not needed, it
will be useless and will be a candidate for
expiration.

Background of the Study

The proponents, knowing this factors had the

vision to initiate and develop a system that helps
Barangay Health Centers allocate medicines, in a
manner that it will not be put into a condition that
it is not usable anymore when stored.

Statement of the Problem

Statement of the Problem

Did you know??...
Barangay Health Centers are in fact a local government unit
that serves to help people about their healthcare.
government spends about 1.2 billion pesos for their annual
budget to purchase medic.ines and other healthcare supplies.

..With this facts, in the mass market they are competing

with private hospitals and pharmacies that kills their capacity to
make use of their resources ending up with expiration of
goods and services, lack of manpower etc.

Statement of the Problem

With the cooperation of a number of Barangay Health Centers,

the proponents aims to revive them and make use of what the
government can offer, it seeks to revive this objectives;

Statement of the Problem

1. To disseminate and to properly use the budget for allocation
of medicines given by the government.
2. To extract information for inventory of medicines and then
shares this information on the website to be helpful for other
health centers if they can offer medicines on other areas.
3. To maintain quality of medicines that typically retain its
value to treat diseases and should be put into good use
before it expires.
4. To create a social medium that is better suited to addressing
the needs of the one who will use the system and the people
that will benefit from it.

Significance of the Study

Significance of the Study

The significance of this study is to provide a decision
support system for Barangay Health Centers. The system is
web-based and includes information exchange to other
barangay health centers that can provide them a data to help
them on medicine allocation and request for medicines in
other centers. Since the area the proponents are focusing on
the solution to properly allocate the medicines in an area, its
main beneficiaries are the Barangay Health Centers and the
citizens living in the Philippines.

Scope and Limitations

Scope and Limitations

MediSYNC will focus on entities whom are working at
Barangay Health Centers. Health Administrators and staff at the
center will be the primary users of the system. Although, the
website can be accessed by a regular citizen, but it can only
provide basic features not similar to the main users of the
system.
The developers limits the system in three Barangay Health
Centers that has an availability of a one computer unit and an
internet connection.

Operational Definition
Of Terms

Operational Definition of Terms

1. Dashboard the main interface of the system. It provides a
birds eye view of the reports generated in different barangay
health centers
2. ROR(Request of Release) term used to request medicines
in another barangay and must have an approval on the other
party.
3. MIU(Medicine Inventory Update File) term used to the
general file of inventory that makes the system work. It is
the central database of the system.