Centralized Web portal for organ, tissue and blood donation in GCC

Organ, tissue, and blood donation has become one of the most effective lifesaving and enhancing medical innovation for patients. However, besides factors of availability, medical, religious, legal, etc., limited regulatory web portal platforms is considered a major obstacle against demand and supply in the GCC countries. This research project aims at achieving two objectives, 1) explore the organ, tissue, blood donation phenomena and 2) develop and evaluate a GCC centralized web portal “ODB” that manages the donation process. Methodologically, an SDLC based methodology, entailing two phases: 1) Exploratory phase and 2) Web portal app development phase, represents the base of the current research design. The exploration was performed following SLR and CA literature surveying methods and 1st questionnaire to collect user requirements, while the second phase employed 2nd and 3rd questionnaires to collect and analyze system requirements and to evaluate the developed ODB based on Nielsen heuristics. The development process employed DFD, ERD, and other modeling techniques, while the coding employed JAVASCRIPT, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery and SQL as development and DB packages. Empirically, research findings revealed a better understanding of the shortcomings of the organ, tissue and blood apps, informed the requirements of the development of ODB, and obtained an 83.9% acceptance rate in terms of usability. 96.2% in terms of visibility, 83.3% in terms of model accuracy, 76.8% in terms of user control, 87.7% in terms of consistency, 73.9% in terms of Aesthetic and minimalist design, 82.6% in terms of error recognition and error prevention, and 87.0% in terms of privacy.