GIS in Health Service
The health system of Bangladesh is seeing increasing level of use of Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS helps in locating where a kind of health service is available, where not available and where certain kind of service is needed. It helps in
Schedule Management Software
This database software has been developed on a requirement given by the Honorable Minister for Health & Family Welfare Professor Dr AFM Ruhal Haque, MP. Top policy makers and high officials beginning from the Honorable Minister to Directors under the ministry and its agencies remain busy in plenty of meetings, seminars, events daily, weekly and monthly. The Honorable Minister was looking for a convenient way for maintaining, tracking and updating his time-tables by a password protected user group for all events anytime and from anywhere through an easy to use Internet interface. To fulfill this requirement, MIS developed an online database. The Honorable Health Minister is using the database, which is also made available for use by other high officials. The users now produce and print their day to day schedules directly from the database to display in personal time-table stands. Statistical reports can be prepared also.
ADP Progress Monitoring System
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare tracks progress of its Annual Development Program by an online database system called “ADP monitoring system”. All the line directors of the Health, Population & Nutrition Sector Development Program 2011-16 and all the other project directors of different development projects under the ministry update the database with financial and physical data pertaining to their ongoing progress. Each month there held a monitoring meeting chaired by the Senior Secretary of the ministry, where facts and figures are drawn from this database online and on large projection screens.
The respective line directors and project directors update the data from their respective offices. Tables, charts and summary reports including IMED (implementation, monitoring & evaluation department) are automatically generated. This database is a great tool for project managers, agency chiefs or the ministry to review progress of ADP anytime and from anywhere through Internet.
Online Processing of Dental-Medical Admission Tests
From 2011, students seeking admission in government and private medical and dental colleges of Bangladesh had to submit their applications and fees through Internet and mobile phones. They received their admit cards, admission test time-table,
Human Resource Databases
The MIS maintains three databases for human resource management. These are online Personal Data Sheet (PDS); online Human Resource Management System; and Field Staff Information System.