Developing a Prototype of Mobile Dental Information System in Indonesia

With the rapid development of wireless technology, mobile devices applications and services have become more convenient. One area that can be supported by this technology is the field of health, particularly in the dental information system. Processing of the patient data is one of the many factors that have an important role in hospitality industry. The manual processing of patient data in dental clinic X Yogyakarta, Indonesia is inefficient and ineffective. It cant guarantee the accuracy of the calculation, recapitulations, and reporting system. The rapid development of information technology makes it possible to develop a dental information system, which give accurate reports on the status of the patients in real time for the purpose of improving patient safety and quality of services. In this research, the application developed under Java programming language and mySQL database. The testing result of the application has shown that the program can be operated easily, has a clear work flow, supports various facilities that help users, and is able to become valuable inputs for dental clinic management to make decisions. Based on the questionnaire result, 80 respondents reported that the program met the requirements and easy to use.