This study aimed to create a web based model of a reusable design
model that can help to integrate data in databases of d i f f e r e n t
organizations, so it can easily be made available to health care workers handling the
AIDS pandemic. Integrated Healthcare Information Systems have several benefits for
AIDS care management. They provide on spot and timely access to huge medical archives
required in health care [8]. However, most medical information systems currently in operation
suffer from their centralized nature that fails to satisfy the distributed requirements of
a regional or national health care system. Caring for an increasing and widely
dispersed population of AIDS patients is costly, requires good coordination and real
time flow of information. The treatment for AIDS is expensive and patient specific.
Even when patients relocate from one place or change healthcare providers, the treatment needs to
remain the same. Healthcare providers therefore require and would be greatly assisted
by an information system with all data in place to which they can just refer,
regardless of geographical location. A Web-based integrated information system as
suggested by this study addresses this important need. Other benefits from such a
system include better care and monitoring for AIDS patients, reduced treatment
delivery costs and easier access to data by all the stakeholders.