Design and Implementation of an Online Healthcare System

Design and Implementation of an Online Healthcare System.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to design and implement an online healthcare system for General Hospital Minna. Healthcare services rendered to outpatient and can be defined as a patient who receives medical treatment without being admitted to a hospital.

It is a patient who is not hospitalized for 24 hours or more but who visits a hospital, clinic or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment.

The combination of PHP, MYSQL and MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER was chosen for this project. The online outpatient database system offers functionalities to quick access to patient records.

It also provides management with timely, confidential and secure medical reports that facilitate planning and decision making and hence improve medical service delivery.

INTRODUCTION

Hospitals are highly information-intensive organizations which spend substantial sums on information management and processing on inpatients and outpatients database system.

It naturally follows that technologies that improve the gathering, storage, transmission and processing of information would be useful tools in hospital management.

Patient base assessments of medical care are increasingly being used to measure the quality of health care. A variety of methods qualitative and quantitative are available.

However, patient satisfaction surveys are frequently used. The study assessed the patient’s perception of care provided at an outpatient clinic has been carried out since established.

An outpatient is a patient who is not hospitalized for 24 hours or more but who visit a hospital, clinic or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment.

An inpatient, on the other hand, is “admitted” to the hospital and stays overnight or for an indeterminate time, usually, several days or weeks (though some cases, such as coma patients, have been in the hospital for years).

Treatment in this fashion is called inpatient care. The admission to the hospital involves the production of a hospital admission note. The leasing of the hospital is officially termed discharge, and involves a corresponding discharge note.

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