Enhancing Public Health Records: Development of Death Certificate Management System

This research aims to develop an innovative Death Certificate Management System to minimize document damage, reduce risk of document loss, and enhance the efficiency of the document issuance process. The system developed as a Web-based Application because this type of system is very flexible to use on various hardware and does not need a complicated installation process. The System was developed at one of the public health centers, PUSKESMAS Kalideres, which has the main feature to receive input and then save it into the database. The system allows users to export the database to Ms. Excel document as well as Ms. Word document as legal proof to Death Registration later. The system development process follows the Agile Scrum method where in designing the UI/UX the User Centered Design method is used to ensure that users are always involved and their needs are covered. Internal evaluation was conducted using the black box testing method, while user evaluation involved distributing questionnaires to users and conducting interviews to stakeholders. The questionnaire results showed that 96.2% of users found the system beneficial in facilitating their work to Death Certificate input and issuance, while 3.8% had different opinion. Additionally, the system helped them in reporting mortality figures through the recapitulation feature.