DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF OUTPATIENT 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 outpatient information and the solution given to tackle those problem. Outpatient information management is the act of managing outpatient information or presence in a check up and treatment setting to minimize loss due to employee downtime. Outpatient information control has traditionally been approached using time clocks, timesheets, and time tracking software, but outpatient information management goes beyond this to provide a check up and treatment environment which maximizes and motivates employee outpatient 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 researcher came up with something readable and valuable to any body that goes through it. The project dwell more on OUTPATIENT 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 outpatient information keeping.

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
  • Hospital 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

Outpatient Information System is used by the hospital to create, process and record their outpatient 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.  A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in 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 a patient

The aim of computer based outpatient information system is to promote early intervention by the school and, when necessary, by the LA. The approach aims to ensure that rapid and appropriate action is taken to tackle absence problems as soon as they become apparent.

Patientss today have a broad scope of responsibility as health care providers that requires them, under some circumstances, to exercise independent professional judgment. When patientss exercise their judgment negligently, they may be held liable because courts hold them to a correspondingly higher level of accountability.

Patientss have been held liable for their failure to monitor and/or promptly respond to patients by informing physicians of significant changes in patients’ conditions. Under these types of circumstances, patientss have an affirmative check up and treatment to exercise their professional judgment to ensure that all adequate steps are taken to treat patients appropriately.

The pupil registration regulations govern the admissions and outpatient 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 hospitals are required to record in the outpatient information register once at the beginning of the morning session and once during the afternoon whether the pupil 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 nature of any approved activities.

1. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

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

Due to the problem encountered with the patients attitude to their check up and treatment, the need arise to develop a software that will assist to solve the problem. The problem caused by the use of manual method of keeping outpatient information can only be solved by computerizing the hospital outpatient information.