Approaches and challenges Of Information and Software Technology

Running Head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL1
The Project Aims and Objectives:
The aim of this thesis is to develop an IT solution for the management of FMC
surgery room reservation requests via the creation of an online-based application, a web
scheduling program where all surgeons in the medical city have access and can request date,
time, equipment and room for their surgery.
Faruk Medical City (FMC) is one of Sulaimaniya City (Northern Iraq)'s largest
hospitals with 190 doctors, 37 departments, 11 surgical rooms and 210 beds. FMC performs a
variety of activities such as:
 Cardiac and Open Heart Surgeries
 Vascular Surgeries
 Thoracic Surgeries
 Pediatric neurosurgery
 Endoscopic assisted surgeries
 Microscopic urology surgery
 Laparoscopic Surgery
 General Nephrology Service
 Kidney Transplants
Apart from the above mentioned surgeries, FMC also has Daycare procedures,
Intensive care services, pharmacy services, Hospital hotel services, checkup centers, physical
therapy center, sleep disorders treatments etc.
FMC already has a well-structured computerized network-based system in which they
collect different data about their patients and use them during their treatment process in

RESEARCH PROPOSAL2
different activities, but their computerized system lacks a powerful scheduling method to
allow them to book surgery rooms for surgery. An option will be added to the application to
send SMS messages to the patients so that clients are notified immediately after the
appointment is accepted. As a reminder, another scheduled SMS will automatically be sent
(will be set by the admin) within a specific time before the surgery.
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Question(s)
1. What is the current method that FMC applies for providing surgery
room’s appointments to their surgeons, and what are the gaps in this
system?
2. How can an IT solution improve the efficiency of the surgery
room’s appointment system in providing a sufficient and error free
appointment date/time to conduct their surgeries?
3. How can an IT solution ensure that the equipment requested by the
surgeons are not in use during the requested date/time in other rooms?
4. How can an IT solution deal with emergency cases when all rooms
are reserved and what should be the procedures for dealing with urgent
surgeries?
Research
Methods
 Collection of data in a qualitative style by conducting confidential
interviews with the surgeons in FMC and the medical assistant who is
currently responsible for managing the manual scheduling system.
 Researching the current techniques in securing an online-based
application that will be used in FMC.
 Critical evaluation of the currently available surgery rooms
booking system used by FMC.
IT Artefact  The central IT artefact will be an online-based system for
managing the surgery room’s bookings in FMC.
Evaluation  Performing evaluation on the system prior to its release.
 Testing the security of the application using ethical hacking tools.
 Running SQL questions to assess the entry of the data and their
accuracy.
 Conducting interviews that are qualitative and confidential