CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Healthcare establishments like hospitals, rehabilitation centers, health-saloons etcareseen as figures of hope by the sick and diseased. Just like other organizations, medicalestablishments are also well-organized, following rigid and complex processes. Theseestablishments require efficient and strong manpower for proper management of theirprocesses. Their main objective is to offer quality healthcare to patients in a proper and cost-effective way. In recent years, there has been noticed a rapid growth of hospital industry inour country, which in turn has created a need of hospital software. This software is verymuch valuable for hospitals as it has lots of advanced features. Hospital management Systemhas been designed for managing complete hospital system and delivering the desired benefitsto the hospitals.
Hospital software easily automates the whole process of collating; retrieving and gatheringa
patient information and as a consequence it results in improved response time towards thepatient's demands. Doctors and other seniors of the hospital would be capable of spendingtheir precious time in other clinical activities over simple clerical activities. Sometimes ithappens that accounting becomes very much complicated and pathetic. Using the softwarewill remove all such complexities as it helps you retrieve your information accurately on your finger tips
1.2.0INTRODUCTION
Chapter one introduces the research work and the problem definition ofthe research, and to know the aim of this research work, research justification tellsus why it is important to research on this topic, it also covers areas like scope andlimitation of study which entails the boundary of this work. Definition of termsgives definition of some of the keywords to be to use in this work. Chapter layoutsummarize what each chapter entails.
1.3.0
PROBLEM DEFINITION
This research work was undertaken to uncover the various problems with conventionalhospital management system. These includes;
1. Lack of immediate retrievals: -The information is very difficult to retrieve E.g. - To find
out about the patient’s history, the user has to go through various registers. This results ininconvenience and wastage of time.
2. Lack of immediate information storage: - The information generated by varioustransactions takes time and efforts to be stored at right place.
3. Lack of prompt updating: - Various changes to information like patient details are difficultto make as paper work is involved.
4. Error prone manual calculation: - Manual calculations are error prone and takes a lot oftime, this may result in incorrect information.
1.4.0OBLECTIVE OF STUDY
In view of the problems mentioned above, this project is aimed atimplementing a hospital management system which will exclusively:
•Automate the daily operations of the hospital
•Assign unique id for every patient and store the details of every patient and thestaff automatically.
•Simultaneously update changes made to any data, item in the entire database.
•Efficiently handle the hospital billing facility.
1.5.0RESEARCH JUSTIFICATION
Hospital management system is of great important to hospitals because all current processes
are done manually;
• Information about Patients is done by just writing the Patients name, age and gender.
Whenever the Patient comes up his information is stored freshly.
• Bills are generated by recording price for each facility provided to Patient on a
separate sheet and at last they all are summed up.
• Diagnosis information to patients is generally recorded on the document, which
contains Patient information. It is destroyed after some time period to decrease the
paper load in the office.
Introduction of hospital management systems will help to overcome the problems mentioned
above.
1.6.0
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This research work “design and implementation of an interactive system for
hospital management” will be a web-based application and will be implemented on a
relational database system(mysql). Html(hypertext markup language), css(cascading
style sheet) and jquery will be used to design the web-user interface, php (hypertext
preprocessor) will be used as the serve- side script language to link the interface and
the database.
1.7.0
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF STUDY
It can be used in any Hospital, Clinic, Dispensary or Pathology labs for maintaining
staff details, patient details and their lab results. this research work is limited by time
constraints, money and unavailability of resources etc.
1.8.0
DEFINITION OF TERMS
HOSPITAL: an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing
care for sick or injured people.
PATIENT: a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: a computer hardware and software that
processes hospital’s data.
DATABASE: an organized collection of data this is stored in computer and can be
accessed and used in various ways.
RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: it uses relation or two
dimensional tables to store information.
MYSQL: it is an English like database query language used for retrieving and
managing data in a relational database management system, it is a query language for
querying and modifying data and managing databases.
PHP: originally stood for personal homepage currently, it is known as hypertext
preprocessor widely used as a general purpose server-side scripting language that was
originally designed for developing dynamic web pages.
1.9.0
CHAPTER LAYOUT
This section was put in place to explain what each chapter does, chapter
one introduces the project to the reader by explaining the problems the project is
supposed to solve, objective of the study and research justification is to describe to
the reader the purpose and the importance of researching on this topic, research
methodology is all about the method used in implementing the research work, scope
and limitation describes the boundary of the research work and where the project
work can be put into use.
Chapter two deals with the literature review and state-of-the-art, this chapter
discusses literature review, what people have published related to this research
work and their shortcoming, how this present research work can improve their
shortcomings, if any.
Chapter three deals with the system design methodology I.e. collection of
tools methods and practices for achieving a task, the requirement specification states
the expectation of the system, and design which is the blueprint of what the system
would carry out.
Chapter four has to do with the implementation, system testing strategies,
target computer system requirement, software maintenance etc
Chapter five discusses the recommendations and conclusion part of the
research work and how this research work can be applicable to the problem domain.
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