Visualizing ocular trauma causes in the philippines: a heatmap analysis

Abstract

Background: Ocular trauma monitoring in clinics is still relying on manual record-keeping, which constrains real-time data visualization and decision support. Health information systems on the web are one of the possible solutions in enhancing the monitoring of incidents and clinical data in ophthalmology departments.

Objective: To design and test a web-based application to visualize the cases of ocular trauma at the Department of Health Eye Clinic (DOHEC) in East Avenue, Manila, Philippines. Methods: Descriptive-developmental research design was used. Scrum agile system was used to develop software over a 30-day sprint cycle with project management using Gantt charts. The development tools were Microsoft Visual Studio Code, the XAMPP localhost prototype testing and the CodeIgniter with PHP dynamic web functionality. DOHEC consultants and staff were used to test the beta and identify bugs and mitigate risks in the system. The quality of software was measured by 11 Computing and IT professionals (4 professors, 36.36; 7 industry professionals, 63.63) by the ISO 25010 measuring tool. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used to evaluate user acceptability by 2 DOHEC consultants. The purposive sampling was utilized. The information was gathered through Google Forms and examined with the help of descriptive statistics.

Result: The mean weighted score of the system based on the ISO 25010 quality instrument was 4.97 out of a possible 5.00 by computing and IT professionals. The weighted mean score of 5.00 obtained by DOHEC personnel using the TAM instrument was the highest possible, which implies that the TAM instrument is completely acceptable by the clinical end-users.

Conclusion: The web-based ocular trauma visualization system developed had a high quality of the software and high user acceptability by both technical and clinical reviewers, which indicated that it was ready to be implemented in an ophthalmology clinical environment.