Designing an Information System Model for National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka

Abstract

Life is a precious element from all the belongings we have. Blood is an essential asset for survival from different circumstances. Therefore, donation of blood is an essential criterion for the human beings to save the lives of their beings. The National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka is the only authorized institute that maintains the donation of blood. The existing system faces the challenge of dealing with management of donating blood as it is manual. Similar systems in the global context have been developed as web based systems as well as android applications. In the local context, there is only one system that can be found which will help to organize blood donation campaigns. This study is based on designing an Information System Model for the National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka to utilize the donation of blood to minimize the existing barriers such as limiting early reservations for donations, lack of centralized database to keep the donors' records, low security etc. The system will also facilitate organizing blood donation campaigns all over the country with the help of the National Blood Bank of Sri Lanka. An extended version of scientific method has been used as the research methodology and it has been accomplished by using software requirements namely ASP.net and Microsoft SQL Server database. Using the queries that have been written, blood transfusion can be done effectively, as for the need and on time. The limitations of the manual system can be indicated through the observations of the existing domain and providing a questionnaire to the staff of blood bank. The system has been tested in the real blood bank environment. Evaluation of the solution has been done with 30 participants from the Blood Bank and the results show that 80% increase in the productivity in six months