The Development of System Notification via Mobile Application using API Call for Phatthana Nikhom Hospital Personnel

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop mobile application for Phatthana Nikhom Hospital to receive notifications using API call and 2) to evaluate effectiveness of the developed mobile application. The samples consisted of 1) 3 experts in database system and information system development and 2) 30 of system testers. The instruments used were 1) interview 2) questionnaire to evaluate system performance and 3) questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation (SD). Java were used as programming language in developing system. Database used in this research were SQLite, a database program on mobile devices and MySQL, a database program on server. The research findings indicated that notifications of work systems via mobile application consisted of following sub-systems; accessibility management, notification types management, notification message management, API data receiving management, and mobile application setting. The system was tested for its overall performance by 3 experts in information system development in 4 areas; 1) user requirement 2) functional requirement 3) usability and 4) security. The results revealed that the performance of developed system in all areas were at excellent level with a mean of 4.08 and a standard deviation of 0.34. For user satisfaction, it was evaluated by 30 system testers in 4 areas; 1) application data 2) application template 3) usage 4) overall user satisfaction. It was found that overall user satisfaction on system were at excellent level with a mean of 4.19 and a standard deviation of 0.69