Software system for management of complete blood count (CBC) data for malaria study: a case study of Morogoro Regional Hospital

In this dissertation, we explored the ability to extract laboratory results from Hematology analyzer machine for easy management and storage. Also, the management of complete blood count from Micros 60 OS/OT and patient records for Malaria Study in Morogoro Regional Hospital using relational database has been solved. The methodology used for the development of complete blood count management system includes; use-case techniques, site survey and hands-on practice, and evolutionary software development model. The study has presented four stages for implementation of serial port programs (1) the automatic Composition of bits into byte array data type for serial port transmission (2) the Transmission of the bits as a variant data type through the serial port buffer memories (3) the Convention of the received bits into its subsequently characters for human readability (4) the Composition of Character Array to build a character array basement for specific data block extraction for each individual components which make the complete blood count values. The study demonstrated that the method presented is general and may present a new paradigm for establishing the robust serial port communication systems for any digital device.