Design and Implementation of an Online Outpatient Management System
Design and Implementation of an Online Outpatient Management System.
ABSTRACT
Outpatient management systems in hospitals today necessitate a competent administration when handling patients, generating reports, patient details which serves as a key factor for the flow of business transactions in Sokoto State Specialist Hospital.
Unfortunately, the current outpatient management system leads to misplacement of drug details, and late release of reports, and insecurity to records.
This research project is aimed at computerizing all the records about patients, staff, and doctor’s management.
In order to achieve this goal, a thorough System Study and investigation were carried out and data was collected and analyzed about the current system using document and data flow diagrams. The concept of report production has been computerized hence, no more delay in report generation to the hospital manager.
Errors made on handheld calculators are dealt out completely. The method used to develop the system includes the iterative waterfall model approach, dataflow, logical and entity relationship diagram were used to design the system, and finally the language used were MySql and Php.
INTRODUCTION
A Hospital is an institution with an organized medical and nursing staff provide a range of medical service, like surgery, for people requiring intensive treatment or observation. It may also include facilities for childbirth as well as various outpatient departments. A Hospital makes up of various departments where various cases and handled. For example,
- The surgery department where patients are operated on in the theaters.
- Obstetrics and gynecology unit where pregnant women are taken care of.
- The pediatric department where you treat children. An outpatient is a patient who does not reside in the clinic where he/she is being treated.
The registers of the outpatients are used for documentation of the outpatients. The documentation of the outpatients. The data for outpatient registers are registration number, name of the patient, age, sex, registration address, etc.
The outpatient unit is made up of casualty section, records, outpatient, theaters, various clinics, etc. The treatment of the outpatients ends in the outpatient department which that of the inpatients ends in their various wards.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It could be very burdensome for someone who is seriously ill. It wounded or weak to queue on hospital line waiting for the doctor to attend to him or to pay for service and also get drugs.
But when the designing and implementation of a computerized outpatient information system is achieved, a lot of problems will be documented for the outpatient.
These problems include:
– Time wastage
– Absence of doctors involved
– File sorting
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