COMPUTERIZED HOSPITAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF UNTH HOSPITAL ENUGU STATE)

CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION

Hospital is responsible for the supply of drugs to various inhabitants in zone at specific drug rates.  Form the inception of the hospital, accounting has been manually processed.

The manual system employed is not very efficient, a lot of paper work has to be done, receipt, irrespective of patients, take a long period of time to prepare.  Due to the volumous number of drugs users, record of patients which serve as information for preparing managerial decision are very difficult to locate manually.

Therefore because of the problem and error arising from such a system, the computer based accounting system becomes very invaluable.

• THE BENEFIT OF THIS WORK
• To assist medical organization to maintain concise patients monitoring.  This project is designed to overview how computer can be use to operation in hospital set-up system.  Consequence, this can also serve as aid for computer efficiency designed to carry out administrative job.
• In the event of hug investment the risk at least will be reduced, this means that when the hospital spends a hug capital to carry out some project, that they will recover the capital with minimum risk.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

By account of history, medical account has been plague by several factors based on the current manual process:

–        File and record are not properly kept.

–        Error are easily made and hardly detected.

–        Information is not well maintained.

The sole aim of this project is to reduce un its entirely all these irregularities by the use of computer.