Hospital management system
Abstract : Every cooperate organization, institution or government agency requires data and good quality information to function effectively. It is not an over statement to say that many organizations, institutions or government agencies have become critically dependent on the use of database system for their successes especially in the hospital. Data collected from various sources for example telephone, fax, verbal messages, mails e.t.c. are used in decision making, planning and control of operations in management of clients, personnel and recourses. This project therefore aims at developing an improved hospital information management system using a function-oriented design. The poor efficiency of the present manual management system in hospitals today results from the inordinate length of time it takes to search for and locate patient folders and the ineffective filling system adopted. In this project the Oracle database is the database server where the data is sent to and retrieved from while Active Server Pages (.net programming language) is the client which provides the user interface design and the forms used by the doctors, staff and nurses during administration in the office, laboratory, wards, pharmacy, X-ray e.t.c.
? These hospitals have joined investor-owned corporations because they need additional financial resources to maintain their existence in an increasingly competitive industry.
? It states all the effort that has been made so far to computerize the existing system.
? The existing manual system has a lot of problems that are facing it like data redundancy, data manipulation, data collection, and data storage and data security.
? Upgrading of the software does not and will not require taking down of the existing running application modules.
? These hospitals normally provide quality care for routine medical and surgical problems.
? In manual system, lots of problems are encountered in trying to store large amount of information.
? The aim is to solve most of the problems encountered in the hospital using the old and manual system of medical administration.
? It gives the background information of the project and discusses the problems, scope and objective of the project.
? Most organizations in this information age are faced with the problem of managing information effectively.
• The level of accuracy in the proposed automated system will be higher. All operations would be done correctly and accurately. In practice, errors are not completely eliminated, they are reduced.
• The reliability of the proposed system will be high as information is stored properly and securely.
• In the proposed system utmost care would be taken to ensure that no information is repeated anywhere, in storage .
• The main objective of the proposed system is to provide for a quick and efficient retrieval of information.
• The improvement envisaged is the proposed electronic records management system or data base management system.
? Many different performance measures or success factors were applied in the studies reviewed.
? Among the effect variables were costs, changes in time spent by patients and health care personnel, changes in care process, database usage, performance of users of the system, patient outcomes, job satisfaction, and the number of medical tests ordered.
? To avoid performance degradation, the data dictionary should have sufficient capacity to cache the data.
? This type of database poses a number of problems that affect the efficient utilization of data available in an organization.
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