hospital management system
Project Tittle: IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Problem statement
Statistics from the ministry of health report on the state of regional referral hospitals in Uganda indicates that more than 80% of the hospitals still use the book register system for example a file is opened for each patient that is admitted to the hospital, keeping financial records in books among others. The report further highlights that there are poor relations between patients and the medical personnel [3]
Justification
An interaction with CEO of Namungoona Mission Orthodox Hospital revealed that the book keeping system is time consuming, involves a lot of paper work, its tedious for example when reviewing past records since one has to find the patient’s file, limited security of the data for example most hospitals in Uganda attach patients files to their beds where they can be accessed by anyone, misplacing of patients’ files, loss of all the information about the patients incase fire guts the store room where files are kept. [1]
A survey conducted around Kampala shows that some hospitals such as Kadic, Mengo and Nakasero hospitals have tried to adopt the computerized systems. However, these systems record patient’s arrivals and are used for billing purposes. Furthermore, these systems are only accessible by the administration and cannot be accessed outside the hospital premises.
The main aim of this project is to create and implement a computerized hospital management system that will overcome some of the existing limitations of the current system. The project electronic hospital management system includes registration of patients, storing their details into the system, computerized billing, a mobile application, SMS notifications to improve relations between patients and the medical personnel.
This system will efficiently maintain the details about the patient, simultaneously update changes made to any data, item in the entire data base, will be
Problem statement
Statistics from the ministry of health report on the state of regional referral hospitals in Uganda indicates that more than 80% of the hospitals still use the book register system for example a file is opened for each patient that is admitted to the hospital, keeping financial records in books among others. The report further highlights that there are poor relations between patients and the medical personnel [3]
Justification
An interaction with CEO of Namungoona Mission Orthodox Hospital revealed that the book keeping system is time consuming, involves a lot of paper work, its tedious for example when reviewing past records since one has to find the patient’s file, limited security of the data for example most hospitals in Uganda attach patients files to their beds where they can be accessed by anyone, misplacing of patients’ files, loss of all the information about the patients incase fire guts the store room where files are kept. [1]
A survey conducted around Kampala shows that some hospitals such as Kadic, Mengo and Nakasero hospitals have tried to adopt the computerized systems. However, these systems record patient’s arrivals and are used for billing purposes. Furthermore, these systems are only accessible by the administration and cannot be accessed outside the hospital premises.
The main aim of this project is to create and implement a computerized hospital management system that will overcome some of the existing limitations of the current system. The project electronic hospital management system includes registration of patients, storing their details into the system, computerized billing, a mobile application, SMS notifications to improve relations between patients and the medical personnel.
This system will efficiently maintain the details about the patient, simultaneously update changes made to any data, item in the entire data base, will be
References: 1. Case study- Uganda Orthodox Mission Hospital Namungoona 2. Ministry Of Health statistical abstract-2010 3. report on the state of regional referral hospitals in Uganda published by HURINET-U 4a