DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PATIENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF PARKLANE HOSPITAL, ENUGU)

ABSTRACT

This project is written to help hospitals especially parklane hospital Enugu in the areas they encounter problems in keeping their patient information and the solution given to tackle those problems. Patient information management is the act of managing patient information or presence in a check up and treatment setting to minimize loss due to employee downtime. Patient information control has traditionally been approached using time clocks, time sheets, and time tracking software but patient information management goes beyond this to provide a check up and treatment environment which maximize and motivates employee patient information. The research was carried out of many difficulties such as time factors, money and inability to get much information that could have been of help. But still with all those the research came up with something readable and valuable to any body that goes through it. The project dwell more on patient information system. This is to ensure that every patient comply with her check up and treatment schedule. This is implemented with visual basic programming language and Microsoft access for effective patient information keeping.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY – – – 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM – – – 1
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY – – – – 1
1.4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES – – – – 1
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY – – – – – 1
1.6 LIMITATIONS OF STUDY – – – – 1
1.7 ASSUMPTIONS – – – – – – 1
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS – – – – 1

CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW – – – – – – 2

CHAPTER THREE
3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING
SYSTEM – – – – – – – 3
3.2 FACT FINDING METHOD USED – – – 3
3.3 HOSPITAL STRUCTURE – – – – 3
3.4 OBJECTIVES – – – – – – 3
3.5 INPUT, PROCESS AND OUTPUT ANALYSIS – 3
3.6 INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAMS – – – 3
3.7 PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM – 3
3.8 JUSTIFICATION AND DESIGNATION OF
SYSTEM – – – – – – – 3

CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM – – – 4
4.2 INPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN – – 4
4.3 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN – 4
4.4 FILE DESIGN – – – – – – 4
4.5 PROCEDURE CHART – – – – – 4
4.6 SYSTEM FLOW CHART – – – – 4
4.7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT – – – – 4

CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 IMPLEMENTATION – – – – – 5
5.2 PROGRAM DESIGN – – – – – 5
5.3 PROGRAM FLOWCHART – – – – 5
5.4 PSEUDO CODE – – – – – – 5
5.5 SOURCE PROGRAM: TEST RUN – – – 5
CHAPTER SIX
6.1 DOCUMENTATION – – – – – 6

CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1 RECOMMENDATION – – – – – 7
7.2 CONCLUSION – – – – – – 7
BIBLIOGRAPHY – – – – – – 8

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Patient information system is used by the hospital to create process and record their patient information. This system is used to calculate the patients punctuate to check up and treatment. It is an effective tool in the hand of the hospital management. The person is most often ill or injured and on need of treatment by a physician or other medical professional, although one who is visiting a physician for a routine check-up may also be viewed as patient.
The aim of computer based patient information system is to promote early intervention by the school and when necessary, by the I.A. The approach aims to ensure that rapid and appropriate action is tackle absence problems as soon as they become apparent.
Patients to day have a board scope of responsibility as health care provides that require them. Under some circumstances, to exercise independent professional judgement, when patients exercise their judgement negligently, hey may be held liable because counts hold them to a correspondingly higher level of accountability.
Patients have been held liable for their failure to monitor and or promptly respond to patient by information physician of significant changes in patients conditions. Under these types of circumstances, patients have an affirmative check up and treatment to exercise their professional judgement to ensure that all adequate steps are taken to treat patient appropriately.
The pupil registration regulations given the admissions and patient information registers that all hospitals must keep, they also regulate the power of special hospitals and maintained hospitals to grant leave of absence.
By law hospital are of required in the patient information register once at the beginning of the morning session and once during the afternoon whether the pupils is present, absent, engaged in an approved, or unable to attend due to exceptional circumstances as defined in regulation. If compulsory hospitals patients are absent the register must show whether the absence is authorized or unauthorized. It must also record the native or any approved activities.

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
This has to do with title of the project, which is the design and implementation of a patent information system for a parklane hospital.
Due to the problem encountered with patients attitude to their check up and treatment, the problem caused by the use of manual method of keeping outpatient information can only be solved