DEDICATION
To my Mom, To my brothers
and sister; To my beloved families;
To all my friends and knowledge
I dedicate this work.

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Table of Contents
DEDICATION ................................................................................................................................. i LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................ v LIST OF ABREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................................ vii CHAPTER

1.GENERAL INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 Background of the Study ............................................................................................................. 1 Statement of the Problem ............................................................................................................ 2 Choice and Interest of the Project ............................................................................................... 3 Objectives .................................................................................................................................... 4 General Objective .................................................................................................................... 4 Specific Objective.................................................................................................................... 4 Scope of the Topic....................................................................................................................... 4 Expected Results ......................................................................................................................... 5 Organization of the Work ............................................................................................................ 5 2. BACKGROUND OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM ..................................................................... 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 6 Definitions of Concepts ............................................................................................................... 6 Methodology and techniques used .............................................................................................. 6 Vision....................................................................................................................................... 7 Mission .................................................................................................................................... 7 Description of the Existing System ............................................................................................. 8 Analysis of the Existing System ............................................................................................... 10 Problems of the Existing system ............................................................................................... 10 Proposed solutions..................................................................................................................... 11 3.DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM ........................................................................................... 13 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 13 ii

Unified Process (UP) ................................................................................................................. 18 Analysis Of The New System ................................................................................................... 21 Use Case Diagram ..................................................................................................................... 23 Database Schema diagram ........................................................................................................ 36 4.PRESENTATION AND TECHNICAL REALIZATION OF THE .......................................... 37 APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................ 37 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 37 Technologies Used for The System Implementation ................................................................ 37 NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 ............................................................................................................... 37 JSP Technology and Java Servlets ........................................................................................ 38 Itext Reports .......................................................................................................................... 39 Software Tests of ONLDMRS .................................................................................................. 39 Software Results Presentation ................................................................................................... 42 Software Report......................................................................................................................... 46 Software Installation Requirements .......................................................................................... 48 5.CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ......................................................................... 49 Conclusion................................................................................................................................. 49 Recommendations ..................................................................................................................... 50 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 51 Books ..................................................................................................................................... 51 Papers and Articles ................................................................................................................ 51 Web Sites ............................................................................................................................... 51 APPENDIXES .............................................................................................................................. 52 A.PROPOSAL APPROVAL .................................................................................................... 53 B.DATA COLLECTION PERMISSION ................................................................................. 54 CURRICULUM VITAE ............................................................................................................... 55

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LIST OF TABLES
Table
1: Creating users Use Case Description ........................................................................................ 24 2: Register patient Use Case Description...................................................................................... 25 3: Send sample Use Case Description .......................................................................................... 25 4: View results Use Case Description ........................................................................................... 26 5: View report Use Case Description............................................................................................ 26 6: Send results Use Case Description ........................................................................................... 27

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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1:Phase of UP ................................................................................................................................ 19 2: Use Case Diagram .................................................................................................................... 23 3: Class Diagram ........................................................................................................................... 29 4: Database Diagram ..................................................................................................................... 31 5: Sequence Diagram for registering patient ................................................................................ 32 6: Sequence Diagram for registering patient ................................................................................ 33 7: Sequence Diagram for sending sample ..................................................................................... 34 8: Sequence Diagram for viewing result ....................................................................................... 34 9: Sequence Diagram for viewing report ...................................................................................... 34 10: Sequence Diagram for sending result ..................................................................................... 35 11: Database Schema diagram ...................................................................................................... 36 12: Login page of” OLRDMRS” software ................................................................................... 42 13: Interface for recording new patient ......................................................................................... 43 14: Interface for sending sample ................................................................................................... 43 15:Interface for viewing samples .................................................................................................. 44 16: Interface for viewing results ................................................................................................... 44 17: Received samples from Hc Interface ...................................................................................... 45 18: Interface for viewing results from Nrl .................................................................................... 45 19: Interface for printing patient report ........................................................................................ 46 20: Patient report ........................................................................................................................... 46 21: Samples report ....................................................................................................................... 47 22: Results report .......................................................................................................................... 47

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LIST OF ABREVIATIONS
RBC

- Rwanda Biomedical Center

NRL

- National Reference Laboratory

AUCA

- Adventist University of Central Africa

HTML

- HyperText Markup Language

ICT

- Information Communication Technology

IT

- Information Technology

OLRDMRS

- Online Laboratory Results Data Management and Reporting System

IDE

- Integrated Development Environment

MIS

- Management Information System

OOM

- Object-Oriented Methodology

OOAD

- Object Oriented Analysis and Design

OOA

- Object Oriented Analysis

OOD

- Object Oriented Design

OOP

- Object Oriented Programing

OMT

- Object Modeling Technique

OOSE

- Object Oriented Software Engineering

SDP

- Software Development Process

SEP

- software engineering process

UML

- Unified Modeling Language

UP

- Unified Process

RUP

- Rational Unified Process

VPN

- Virtual Private Network

XHTML

- eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

XML

-eXtensible Markup Language

CSS

-Cascading Style Sheets

JSP

-Java Server Page

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Above all, we thank almighty God for his grace and protection during our studies. This work would not have been possible without the support of many peopleWe deeply offer our sincere thanks to the academic staff of the department of Information Technology and the whole Administration at large at the Adventist University of Central Africa for the work done during my stay at the University, the knowledge that I acquired helped me to conduct this research, and I take this opportunity to thank the whole AUCA staffs.

We sincerely thank Mr. Mukwende Placide for remarks, guidance and supervision of the work.Many thanks to the staff of National Reference Laboratory for their cooperation and efforts to provide me needed information to the achievement of goals of this work especially Mr. KALINDA Prime.

My gratitude also goes to my beloved Mom, GAKURU Peter and also my Sister NYIRASAFARI Judith for their education, patience, affection, finance and moral support all along my education period.Special thanks also to all my fellow students and friends at AUCA especially, AKILI Heritier, TUYISHIME Diane, UMUTESI M.Claire,BYUKUSENGE Hornella, MPANO R. Longin and GASOMINARI Alexis

for their encouragement

invaluable assistance.

May Almighty God bless you all!

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CHAPTER 1
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Information technology (IT) has become a vital and integral part of every business plan. From multi-national corporations who maintain mainframe systems and databases to small businesses that own a single computer, IT plays a role. The reasons for the omnipresent use of computer technology in business can best be determined by looking at how it is being used across the business world.

Diffusion of IT in Health care is generally low (varying, however, with the application and setting) but surveys indicate that providers plan to increase their investments in IT including the promise of quality and efficiency gain. IT department have been contribute to the role of reducing Death because of quick communication and sharing of Data (in term of communication between Health centers and District Hospitals and vice versa).

Background of the Study
Health care is one of the most important components in your life. Disease or illness can really mean a down turn in your life. The biggest asset we can have in life therefore is health. Health care is normally defined as the management or treatment of any health problem through the services that might be offered by medical, nursing, dental or any other related service. When you talk about the care of health, you are talking of all goods and services that are produced to improve on our health. They may be curative, preventative or even palliative solutions. A system of health care is one that is organized to give health services to a population or a group of people. National Reference Laboratory (NRL) is a Mubadala Healthcare initiative, created in partnership with and operated by Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), one of the world’s largest and most experienced clinical laboratory operators. NRL aims to increase the spectrum, coverage and overall efficiency...

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