The Implementation of a web-based information system for issuing birth certificates in Nineveh Health Directorate

Abstract

The web-based information system is one of the vital and important systems, because of the advantages it provides in terms of the possibility of sharing data and information between government institutions, which supports the trend towards e-government to provide services to citizens quickly and accurately, and facilitates the work of employees, and the possibility of linking government institutions with each other. However, some governmental institutions still did not adopt this approach, including hospitals, as they still rely on paper records and manually recording data by the employee in issuing children's birth certificates, which leads to them taking a long time to complete this process, so the research aimed to implement a document-based information system To the web to issue a birth certificate for newborn children, as it works to install all the information related to the newborn, store its information and share its records, as the system works to audit it and provide an electronic copy to the guardian and another copy to be sent to the Ministry of Health. The research reached results, the most important of which is the possibility of applying the system in hospitals, and the ease of dealing with the system by the employee and the guardian. In addition to the possibility of limiting the number of children who have been issued birth certificates during specific time periods. The research suggests increasing awareness of this system and generalizing its use to other hospitals.