The Managing Director Dr. Silver Kiyemba in a surprising ceremony recognized Ms. Mable Nantongo, for her resilient services rendered to the organization despite trying times. Mable is the Chief Cook with exceptional motherly skills that have sometimes pitted her against rough organizational odds, of inadequate supply of resources. She comes off as a good example of a person extremely committed to their job.
Employees who have known her longer, credit her for often reporting to work even knowing that she had nothing to prepare for staff.
IICS Technologies started with a small team of software developers, growing into a big team of over seventy (70) employees. Twelve years ago, at the time Mable joined, there were a handful of staff whom she had to prepare meals for, yet she even seems to enjoy her work more with the current bigger team.
“IICS Technologies appreciates you, Ms Mable Nantongo for your dedication and love for this organization. You are a living proof that there’s no such thing as a small effort. You are a blessing to each of us. Thank you” read part of the message coined on the plaque presented to her by the Managing Director.
JOB OPPORTUNITITES
The Integrated Intelligent Computer System (IICS) project is both a Private and Public initiative. It is funded by the Government of Uganda under the Presidential Support to Scientists’ Initiative and also initiating Private entities.
Government of Uganda has for long, worked towards digitizing Health Services Delivery and improving accountability in Government Hospitals. IICS Technologies developed an Integrated Health Information Management System Software (IHFMIS) as a means of achieving the digitization of the Health Service Delivery in Uganda, which it handed over to the Government of Uganda.
With that, Government transited the IICS Technologies Ltd being the developer of the Software to build other modules and to continuously maintain it for critical and urgent installations in different health facilities.
The Following Positions are available:
1. SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS (5 Positions)
Duty station: Kampala
Reports to: The Team Leader -Software Development
Role Definition: To develop and implement new software programs and to test and maintain software development life cycle (SDLC)
Key responsibilities
1. Develop and implement new software programs,
2.Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support colleagues,
3. Design, troubleshoot, debug and update software database and upgrading existing systems,
4. Write well designed, testable code,
5. Test and maintain SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle (SDLC),
6. Develop flow charts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions,
7. Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility,
8. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system,
9. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures,
10. Document and maintain software functionality,
11. Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback,
12. Comply with project plans and industry standards,
13. Conferring with Project Managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities,
14. Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Specifications.
a) Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering,
b) 3 – 5 years’ experience,
c) Programming in web-based applications: Java technologies, Dot Network platforms Pearl and Python,
d) Expertise in application development tools and development environments,
e) Software design, documentation and debugging skills,
f) Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle.
g) The desire to work in fast paced environment
h) Ability to develop unit testing of code components or complete applications
2. JUNIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (3)
Duty station: Kampala
Reports to: The Team Leader – Software development
Role Definition: This is an entry level software developer that assist the development team with all aspects of software design and coding. Their Primary role is to learn the codebase, attend and design meetings, write basic code, fix bugs and assist the development team in all design related tasks
Key responsibilities
1. Develop and implement new software programs,
2.Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support Colleagues,
3. Design, troubleshoot, debug and update software database and upgrading existing systems,
4. Write well designed, testable code,
5. Test and maintain software development life cycle (SDLC),
6. Develop flow charts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions,
7. Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility,
8. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system,
9. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures,
10. Document and maintain software functionality,
11. Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback,
12. Comply with project plans and industry standards,
13. Conferring with project Managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities,
14. Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time,
Specifications
a) Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering,
b) 3 – 5 years’ experience,
c) Programming in web-based applications: Java technologies, Dot Network platforms Pearl and Python,
d) Expertise in application development tools and development environments,
e) Software design, documentation and debugging skills,
f) Knowledge of software development life cycle,
g) The desire to work in fast paced environment,
h) Ability to develop unit testing of code components or complete applications.
3. SYSTEMS ANALYST AND DESIGNERS – 3 Posts
Duty station: Kampala
Reports to: The Team Leader - Software Development
Role Definition: To develop and implement new software programs and to test and maintain software development life cycle (SDLC)
Purpose of the Job
Systems Analysts analyse how well software, hardware and the wider IT system fit the business needs of their employer or of a client. They write requirements for new systems and may also help implement them and monitor their effectiveness. Systems Designers work with the organization to understand the problems with their information systems and develop ways to improve processes. Problem-solving skills are critical to helping systems designers analyze the cause of the problem and find solutions using their technical knowledge.
Key Responsibilities
1. People Management
2. Gathering information from consumers about program functionality. (Requirements Gathering)
Governance and Processes
3. Assist in the collection and documentation of user’s requirements, work plans and stages of the product and service design.
4. Examining current systems
5. Producing specifications for new or modified systems
6. Liaising with other IT staff such as programmers to produce new systems.
7. Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
8. Meeting with clients to understanding their existing information systems and their requirements for a new or updated system
9. Creating system designs using technical specifications to meet the client's requirements.
10. Developing a design plan that includes the various components of the information system, such as software programs and databases
11. Designing guidelines for programmers to help them understand how to build the system
12. Establishing test plans for teams to run to ensure the system functions correctly
13. Troubleshooting and finding solutions for any issues that occur with the system
Specifications
a) Degree in a technical or IT subject, or experience from a related role,
b) Experience installing, configuring, documenting, testing, training, and implementing new applications and systems,
c) Experience creating system designs using technical specifications,
d) Experience creating test plans and reports,
e) Experience Designing guidelines for programmers,
f) Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly,
g) Ability to follow instructions and work in a team environment.
4. User Interface Programmers -2 posts
Reports to: The Team Leader - Software Development
Role Definition: To develop and implement new software programs and to test and maintain software development life cycle (SDLC)
Purpose of the Job
The management of Soroti Regional Referral Hospital has vowed to be the supreme executor of the Integrated Hospital Management Information
System in their hospital business processes. This, they affirmed during a
Monitoring and Evaluation engagement meeting with the management of the
Integrated Intelligent Computer Systems (IICS Technologies), the computer
scientists who researched, engineered, developed and are implementing the
system in all government health facilities.
Dr. Watmon Ben the Director of Soroti Regional Referral hospital, who had been transferred to the health facility
from Moroto regional referral hospital a fortunate ago, was excited to establish that the current statistics placed his facility on top of the rest in which the iHMIS had been deployed.
The system that was deployed in Soroti in April 2021 has since realized sublime progress in its usage and their
regular feedback to the IICS Technologies team has facilitated systematic and suitable modifications of the modules by the IICS Technology team.
Inadequate hardware, owing to the large size of the hospital and intermittent network failure are some of the eminent challenges the health facility encounters. However, the Principal Clinical Officer Dr Barmas Henry who in his submission stated iHMIS had so far brought forth much relief of the tedious manual capturing of data on paper by introducing an electronic patient record creation, downplayed the challenges as meager compared to the enormous efficiencies the system brings about. He further reiterated that iHMIS had progressively improved and that the, hospital had recorded substantial gains.
“One of the advantages is that our physicians are able to know their patients, track and monitor all their journey
throughout the facility, yet previously one had to do so manually by allocating one of the staff members to follow them around.” remarked the Principal Clinical Officer.
The Managing Director of IICS Technologies Dr Silver Kiyemba made it clear that the effort to hold the
monitoring and evaluation arrangement was to understand from the facilities what has worked and also bring to light some of the hindrances users encounter with the system. “We are here to among other things explore the
possibility of piloting going paperless and highly performing hospitals mentoring others, as well as the possibility of creating avenues in which health facilities share success stories enabling them to always learn from each
other,” said Dr. Kiyemba.
Dr. Silver Kiyemba also said that the process of integrating the Integrated Hospital Management Information System (iHMIS) with the National Identification and Registration Authority is in advanced stages and once completed will resolve all issues related to data entry. Once a patient approaches the registration point their National ID details are entered into the system or their fingerprints are scanned in case they forgot theirNational Identification Number (NIN) and the system will seamlessly retrieve accurate details from the National Identification Register.
Other engagements were held at Iganga General Hospital and Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in which experiences were shared and acknowledged.
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The parliamentary committee on health was
delighted to learn that there’s an effort by Ugandan information Techs to
design, engineer and implement solution based softwares to improve public
service delivery. The Integrated
Hospital Management Information System (iHMIS) which is being implemented at
government hospitals was applauded as a revolutionary innovation that
efficiently addresses salient issues in the health sector. The issues were said
to be sometimes propagated by staff such as absenteeism, drug theft, over
stocking or over ordering of medicines as well sporadic loss of medical
records.
The legislators noted that the health sector management
suffers from artificial tendencies occasioned to self-benefit workers at the
expense of patients and tax payers. While citing some examples Hon. Ruth
Lematia a directly elected woman Member of Parliament, Maracha County
articulated that, some medical workers connive to work for a few days in a week
while covering up for each other once pressed for answers. “Seeing that this
system; records and monitors real time staff attendance and duty task at the
health facility, it’s a great innovation that must be supported at all costs”,
she said.
Hon Engineer Irene Muloni a former Minister of
energy and Mineral development freely expressed her thoughts about government expenditure
to be saved from the system usage once deployed in all health facilities in the
country including health centers II parish level. “This system is really excellent; it’s going
to help improve efficiency, cut costs and minimize losses” and she further
added that she’s “really excited about the system because she has no doubt
about the use of computer based systems in solving problems.
Dr. Silver Kiyimba, the Principal Investigator-Integrated
Intelligent Computer System (IICS Technologies) the implementing agency of
iHMIS presented a live impression and functionalities of the system at random
hospitals chosen by the committee. Astounded by the real time viewing of how
patients were being attended to and the duration each medical worker spent on a
patient, as well as some of the most requested for medicines at specific
hospitals, the committee recommended an expeditious implementation of the
system country wide.
The committee was humbled by Dr. Silver Kiyimba’s
humility to honor the president’s call to leave the UK to come and create IT
based solutions that enhance public service delivery in Uganda. He was flanked by Hajj. Abdul Nsubuga, PMP. the Project Manager, Mr Solomon Ssendigya, the Head
Business Development & Strategy as well as other officers from IICS Technologies.
In a bid to asses and get a deeper understanding
of the progress attained since the Integrated Hospital Management Information System
(iHMIS) was deployed in some health facilities, China-Uganda Friendship
Hospital in Nagura held an engagement meeting with the IICS Technologies team.
Dr. Batiibwe Emmanuel Paul the Hospital Director
while chairing the meeting drew examples from his past experiences in other countries
noted that; any system that seeks to ease work of an administrator ought to be embraced
and supported despite the challenges that may prevail.
He led a team of hospital administrators,
clinicians, senior nurses, pharmacists among others, who on their part
highlighted the importance of different unique system modules. However, the occasional
breakdown of network impedes the functionality of the well intentioned system,
they said.
Hajj Abdul Nsubuga, the Project Manager of the
iHMIS, in response pledged to engage stake holders responsible for
infrastructure and network, to find a lasting solution to the intermittent
network failure. He was accompanied by Mr. Solomon Ssendigiya, the Head of
Business Development and Strategy as well as Change and Development Officers
from IICS Technologies.
In the implementation arrangement, Ministry of Health
meets the infrastructural needs while NITA-U, provides the internet
connectivity and IICS Tech shoulders the process of designing,
engineering, testing, deploying, training users and maintaining the system.
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