DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED HEALTH INSURANCE INFORMATION SYSTEM

Computerized patient record (CPR) has reached a state of technical maturity that makes them an essential component of mordern patient care. However, because information technogy standard do not exist, CPRs constructed by different vendors do not convey clinical infortion easily from provider to provider. Moreover unequal acess to capitals may mean a two-tier clinical information environment in the future. Nigeria health care system remained mired in a morass of paper record bill and unretured telephone message. This project goes towords implementig and maintaining financial system (such as billing). Nigeria lags well behind other countries, notably Great Britain, Astrialia and New Zealand, in the adoptation of computerized clinical system. However a growing body of evidence suggested that fragementation and inacessible clinical informationalso threatens the lives and health of many Nigerians. This computerized health care system will serve as a modern for capturing and storing information on health. There are different programs that can be written to develop such programs, PASCAL, JAVA, VISUAL BASIC, C++ etc. But I will be making use of Visual Basic