DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM CASE STUDY OF PARK LANE HOSPITAL, ENUGU

ABSTRACT

            This project is written to help hospitals especially Park lane hospital Enugu in the areas they encounter problems in keeping their record and the solution given to tackle those problem.

            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 researcher came up with something readable and valuable to any body that goes through it.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page                                                                                                        i

Certification                                                                                                    ii

Dedication                                                                                                      iii

Acknowledgement                                                                                          iv

Abstract                                                                                                          v

Table of contents                                                                                            vii

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION                                                                                         1

1.1       Background of the study                                                                    1         

1.2       State of the problem                                                               2

1.3       Purpose of the study                                                               3

1.4       Aims and objectives                                                                3

1.5       Scope of study                                                                                    5

1.6       Limitations of study                                                               5

1.7       Assumptions                                                                           6

1.8       Definition of terms                                                                             7

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW                                                                  8

CHAPTER THREE

• Description and analysis of existing system                           15
  • Fact finding method used                                                                   17
  • Organization structure                                                                        19
  • Objectives of Existing system                                                            21
  • Input, Process and Output Analysis                                       22
  • Information Flow Diagrams                                                   26
  • Problems of the Existing System                                            27
  • Justification of the New System                                                         28

CHAPTER FOUR

• Design of the New System                                                     30
  • Input Specification and design                                                           30
  • Output specification and design                                                         32
  • File Design                                                                                          34
  • Procedure chart                                                                                   36
  • System flow chart                                                                               38
  • System requirements                                                               40       

CHAPTER FIVE

• Implementation                                                                                   42
  • Program Design                                                                                  45
  • Program Flowchart                                                                 48
  • Pseudo code                                                                                        54
  • Source Program: Test Run                                                      59

CHAPTER SIX       

Documentation                                                                                               60

CHAPTER SEVEN

• Recommendation                                                                                62
  • Conclusion                                                                                          64

Bibliography 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

A hospital information system (HIS), variously also called clinical information system (CIS) is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. This encompasses paper-based information processing as well as data processing machines.

As an area of medical informatics the aim of an HIS is to achieve the best possible support of patient care and administration by electronic data processing.

It can be composed of one or a few software components with specialty-specific extensions as well as of a large variety of sub-systems in medical specialties (e.g. Laboratory Information System, Radiology Information System).

CISs are sometimes separated from HISs in that the former concentrate on patient-related and clinical-state-related data (electronic patient record) whereas the latter keeps track of administrative issues. The distinction is not always clear and there is contradictory evidence against a consistent use of both terms.

Usage of Information Technology (IT) remained comparatively very less in Health sector than other sectors despite having more potential. Health Institutions, which is important sector, should encourage IT usage resulting better productivity, effectiveness, efficiency and economics leading to better health care to all. This paper tells a success story of implementation of ICT in monitoring of medicine in health Institutions. System works on low-end resources and E-mail based data transfer from District Hard Quarter to State Head Quarter. Implementation of Med-Centre in all the districts of Enugu results in check on pilferage of medicine, increase in availability of medicine at Government Institution, increase in attendance of patient/doctors in health institution, optimal utilization of medicine and data capturing at source, resulting in availability of error-free data at State Head quarter

Every day, the health of Nigerians is threatened by adverse events caused by errors in the manual entry and processing of drug prescriptions. For each prescription allergy, drug-to-drug and drug-to-diagnosis interactions should be checked against a complete medication profile and a legible prescription should be produced for the pharmacist to dispense. In general, across Canada, this is not always the case today.

Drug Information Systems Program is focused on creating an interoperable drug information system that will carry all data concerning a patient’s medication history: prescribed and dispensed drugs, allergies, ongoing drug treatment, etc., in order to ensure patient safety. Drug and drug-interaction checks are performed automatically and added to the patients’ drug profiles in their Electronic Health Record (EHR). These systems provide physicians and pharmacists with data to support appropriate and accurate prescribing and dispensing, thereby avoiding adverse drug interactions and possible related deaths.

1. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

This has to do with the title of the project, which is the design, and implementation of a computerized Hospital management information system for a park lane hospital .

Due to the problem encountered with the inventory control of a Drug industries, the need arise to develop a software that will assist to solve the problem. The problem caused by the use of manual method can only be solved by computerizing the hospital processing.