CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1.0
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Healthcare establishments
like hospitals, rehabilitation centers, health-saloons etc. are seen as figures
of hope by the sick and diseased. Just like other organizations, medical
establishments are also well-organized, following rigid and complex processes.
These establishments require efficient and strong manpower for proper
management of their processes. Their main objective is to offer quality
healthcare to patients in a proper and cost-effective way. In recent years,
there has been noticed a rapid growth in the health sector in the country, which
in turn has created a need to build an application that will address most of
the issues address in this research work. This research work will be of
paramount importance to the medical sector as it will be design to address most
of the challenges that delay some of the administrative work.
Hospital
software easily automates the whole process of collating; retrieving and
gathering patient information and as a consequence it results in improved
response time towards the patient's demands. Doctors and other senior staff of
the hospital would be capable of spending their precious time in other clinical
activities over simple clerical activities. Sometimes it happens that
accounting becomes very much complicated and pathetic. Using the software will
remove all such complexities as it helps you retrieve your information
accurately.
1.2.0
INTRODUCTION
Chapter one
introduces the research work and the problem definition of the research, and to
know the aim of this research work, research justification tells us why it is
important to research on this topic; it also covers areas like scope and
limitation of study which entails the boundary of this work. Definition of
terms gives summarize what each chapter entails.
1.3.0 PROBLEM
DEFINITION
This
research work was undertaken to uncover some of the problems with conventional hospital management systems.
Where record entry,
updating relevant patient information in his/her record, calculation, storage
and retrieval of records are still being done manually. Using these
conventional moods of operation may pose delay in the administrative system in
the institution.
1.4.0 OBLECTIVE OF STUDY
In view of the problems
mentioned above, this project is aimed at implementing a hospital management
system which will exclusively:
·
Automate
the daily operations of the hospital such as assigningunique id for every
patient when creating his/her record, staff automatically. Simultaneously
update changes made to any record in its database.
·
Efficiently
handle the hospital billing facility.
1.5.0 RESEARCH JUSTIFICATION
This
research work will provide a reliable way of handling patient’s record
effectively and eliminate the lag time in file recovery and also with an inclusion
of a billing system. Furthermore, it will aids structural document
representation and eliminates the tedium of performing monotonous transaction.
This research will also contribute to existing literature in this area and will
serve as a guild or blueprint for an undergraduate student.
1.6.0
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This
research work “design and implementation of an interactive system for hospital
management” will be a web-based application and will be implemented on a
relational database system(MySQL). Html(hypertext markup language),
css(cascading style sheet) and Jquery will be used to design the web-user
interface, php (hypertext preprocessor) will be used as the serve- side script
language to link the interface and the database.
1.7.0 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF
STUDY
This
research work is to develop a system capable of handling most of the
administrative task in the hospital; such as storing patient’s record with each
patient giving a unique id by the system, retrieve these records with ease when
needed, facilitate record update, restricting access in the database with the
allocation of privileges to authorize personnel. The system will also
incorporate in its design a billing system that will record and prints
patient’s bill for every service offered in the hospital.
The
system will not incorporate in its development all the functions of a health
record system but will focus only on the aforementioned functionalities. The
system will not be responsible for any loss of data if its environment
(network/system installed on) is corrupt.
1.8.0 DEFINITION OF TERM
PATIENT:
a person
receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
1.9.0 CHAPTER LAYOUT
This section
was put in place to explain what
each chapter does, chapter one introduces the project to the reader by
explaining the problems the project is supposed to solve, objective of the
study and research justification is to describe to the reader the purpose and
the importance of researching on this topic, research
methodology is all about the method used in implementing the research work,
scope and limitation describes the
boundary of the research work and where the project work can be put into use.
Chapter
two deals with the literature review and state-of-the-art.This chapter
discusses literature review, what people have published related to this
research work and their shortcoming, how this present research can improve
their shortcomings.
Chapter three deals with the system design methodology i.e. collection
of tools methods and practices for achieving a task; the requirement
specification states the expectation of the system analysis, and design which
is the blueprint of what the system would carry out.
Chapter four has to do with the
implementation, system testing strategies, target computer system requirement,
software maintenance etc.
Chapter five discusses the
recommendations and conclusion part of the research work and how this work can
be applied to the problem domain.
CHAPTER
ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1.0
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Healthcare
establishments like hospitals, rehabilitation centers, health-saloons
etcareseen as figures of hope by the sick and diseased. Just like other organizations,
medicalestablishments are also well-organized, following rigid and complex
processes. Theseestablishments require efficient and strong manpower for proper
management of theirprocesses. Their main objective is to offer quality
healthcare to patients in a proper and cost-effective way. In recent years,
there has been noticed a rapid growth of hospital industry inour country, which
in turn has created a need of hospital software. This software is verymuch
valuable for hospitals as it has lots of advanced features. Hospital management
Systemhas been designed for managing complete hospital system and delivering
the desired benefitsto the hospitals.
Hospital
software easily automates the whole process of collating; retrieving and
gatheringa
patient
information and as a consequence it results in improved response time towards
thepatient's demands. Doctors and other seniors of the hospital would be
capable of spendingtheir precious time in other clinical activities over simple
clerical activities. Sometimes ithappens that accounting becomes very much
complicated and pathetic. Using the softwarewill remove all such complexities
as it helps you retrieve your information accurately on your finger tips
1.2.0INTRODUCTION
Chapter
one introduces the research work and the problem definition ofthe research, and
to know the aim of this research work, research justification tellsus why it is
important to research on this topic, it also covers areas like scope
andlimitation of study which entails the boundary of this work. Definition of
termsgives definition of some of the keywords to be to use in this work.
Chapter layoutsummarize what each chapter entails.
1.3.0
PROBLEM
DEFINITION
This
research work was undertaken to uncover the various problems with conventionalhospital
management system. These includes;
1.
Lack of immediate retrievals: -The information is very difficult to retrieve
E.g. - To find
out
about the patient’s history, the user has to go through various registers. This
results ininconvenience and wastage of time.
2.
Lack of immediate information storage: - The information generated by
varioustransactions takes time and efforts to be stored at right place.
3.
Lack of prompt updating: - Various changes to information like patient details
are difficultto make as paper work is involved.
4.
Error prone manual calculation: - Manual calculations are error prone and takes
a lot oftime, this may result in incorrect information.
1.4.0OBLECTIVE
OF STUDY
In
view of the problems mentioned above, this project is aimed atimplementing a
hospital management system which will exclusively:
•Automate
the daily operations of the hospital
•Assign
unique id for every patient and store the details of every patient and thestaff
automatically.
•Simultaneously
update changes made to any data, item in the entire database.
•Efficiently
handle the hospital billing facility.
1.5.0RESEARCH
JUSTIFICATION
Hospital
management system is of great important to hospitals because all current
processes
are
done manually;
•
Information about Patients is done by just writing the Patients name, age and
gender.
Whenever
the Patient comes up his information is stored freshly.
•
Bills are generated by recording price for each facility provided to Patient on
a
separate
sheet and at last they all are summed up.
•
Diagnosis information to patients is generally recorded on the document, which
contains
Patient information. It is destroyed after some time period to decrease the
paper
load in the office.
Introduction
of hospital management systems will help to overcome the problems mentioned
above.
1.6.0
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
This
research work “design and implementation of an interactive system for
hospital
management” will be a web-based application and will be implemented on a
relational
database system(mysql). Html(hypertext markup language), css(cascading
style
sheet) and jquery will be used to design the web-user interface, php (hypertext
preprocessor)
will be used as the serve- side script language to link the interface and