International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-8 Issue-4, April, 2019
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Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering
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Retrieval Number: D6797048419/19©BEIESP
Abstract: This study discusses the design of e-Notification
architecture using short message service technology to improve
community health center services. The e-Notification submitted
can be used as a medium to deliver regular information such as
vaccination schedules organized by the community health
center, as well as a schedule of repeat visits for pregnant women.
The use of e-Notification can reduce the time needed to
broadcast information sent to the public simultaneously or
personally. By using the proposed e-Notification architecture,
large numbers of notifications can be sent simultaneously, with
very high success rates. This proposed architecture can be used
at Community Health Centers located in rural areas or areas far
from urban areas. This architecture is still in the form of design,
so it has not gone through a comprehensive testing phase. But
from the brief comparison that we did to several other ways of
delivering information, the architecture that we submitted
requires a shorter time.
Index Terms: Architecture, e-Notification, Short Message
Service, Community Health Center.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Community Health Center (CHC) is a center for
promoting healthy-minded development, empowering
communities, families and first-level health services that are
responsible for improving the quality of their services
through providing relevant, fast and targeted information to
patients, in an effort to achieve vision and their mission.
For this reason, this study focuses on increasing the
percentage of CHC services to patients (especially pregnant
women) through notification services related to pregnancy
control schedules and family planning services, as well as
reminder services for various types of immunizations that
need to be given to pregnant women, infants/toddlers and
children so that they can reduce infant/toddler mortality.
There are several previous studies related to improving
services provided by community health centers, including
those carried out by Kirby and Sharma [1] which discussed
the level of service provided by CHC. Provide analysis and
suggestions about what should be done to improve health
services provided by CHC in each state. Setiawan et al. [2] in
his paper also discussed the implementation of electronic
medical records in data processing applications used in CHC.
Revised Manuscript Received on April 26, 2019.
Rendra Gustriansyah, Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indo
Global Mandiri, Palembang, Indonesia.
Nazori Suhandi, Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indo Global
Mandiri, Palembang, Indonesia.
Ahmad Sanmorino, Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indo Global
Mandiri, Palembang, Indonesia.
Research like this is very useful because it helps medical staff
process medical record data so that it can be well structured,
making it easier to conduct searches in a relative sort of time.
The use of information technology in community in
various sectors provides a huge contribution in increasing
income and keeping the economy spinning. The
implementation of information technology in various
business sectors has been carried out by several researchers
[3]–[5]. The use of information technology in improving
CHC services to the community has also been carried out
since several years ago. Through this paper we try to
contribute to improving CHC services to the community. The
proposed contribution is the use of short message technology
on cell phone (2G/GSM). The choice of SMS technology in
2G/GSM cell phone is because SMS technology uses the
store and forward method, so that when the
recipient/patient's cell phone is inaccessible or inactive or
outside the service area, patients can still receive SMS when
their cell phone is active back. The limitations of the use of
smartphone technology with various features are things that
must be considered when wanting to implement technology
in disadvantaged communities, so the use of sophisticated
smartphones to send notifications cannot be used in this case.
In other words, a 2G/GSM based cell phone is the right
choice because it is cheap and easy to use, so e-Notification
services that use 2G/GSM mobile devices are expected to
serve all levels of society.We have used smartphones to
broadcast information in previous studies [6], because the
target of e-Announcement services is students on campus so
that the use of smartphone devices is the right choice. In
different cases, smartphone devices can also be used for early
warning about the arrival of disasters, so that people can
avoid disasters and run to safer places [7], [8]. Another useful
initiative for the use of smartphones is in the field of
transportation, making it easier to provide information about
bus departure and arrival schedules [9].
II. METHODOLOGY
The series of research stages that we will do can be seen in
Fig. 1 of the following:
The Architecture of e-Notification Utilizes Short
Message Service to Improve Community Health
Centers Services
Rendra Gustriansyah, Nazori Suhandi, Ahmad Sanmorino