Development of a Digital Resources Sharing Platform for the Hospitals in Malaysia

Abstract

Due to the pandemic, there is high utilization of certain medical resources and a shortage of pharmaceuticals. Hence, this project aims to design and construct a web application that can connect the Malaysian community with healthcare facilities in order to facilitate medical resource sharing. This platform contains the following functionalities: Registration, My Account, Log In, Donation and Request Submission, Donation and Request Listings, My Donation and My Request, Statistics Dashboards and Center of Information. The web application was developed on the Velo by Wix development platform using tools such as applications, APIs and databases provided by Velo. Once construction was completed, a pilot study was conducted for 3 weeks using a digital questionnaire that had 5 main sections: demographics, digital literacy assessment, aesthetics evaluation, user experience and new functionality suggestions. This study garnered a total of 41 respondents. Then, descriptive analysis and inferential analysis using Chi-Square Test of Independents and Mann-Whitney U Test were carried out on the results obtained from the pilot study. Lastly, the results from the pilot survey found that this platform was aesthetically appealing and the performance of the functionalities provided were satisfactory.Clinical Relevance– This project provides a platform that facilitates the donation of medical resources to healthcare facilities to alleviate the burden caused by medical resource shortages.