Hospital Billing System
System Design and Analysis Project
Hospital Billing System
by Information Technology Students
De La Salle Lipa
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Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
Mataas na Kahoy Community Hospital is a newly opened establishment and has been operating for only three months, that is why nearly half of the method/work procedures are conducted manually, may it be on the patient’s record of admission, on the inventory of the medicines and on their billing system.
Since there is no technology used, existing billing system of the hospital is operated manually. The billing staff fills-up a printed billing form with the price based on various treatments and facility and equipment used by the patient. The staff manually computes the total bill with the use of a calculator. This procedure is very time-consuming, inconvenient, and prone to error. Total bills have to be rechecked/recomputed several times to ensure accuracy and avoid incorrect information. Thus, the staff has to repeat all the computation from the start. Hospital’s copy of the patients’ bill is kept on a file folder, arranged by the date when the patient has been discharged, in their record section and when a patient requests for a copy of their bill, the staff has to manually browse the needed record through the entire file folder. Page 1 of 43
Based on the facts stated by the hospital’s billing staff, the proponents believe that this current system is not effective and efficient to the staff in generating the bills. That is why the proponents proposed a system because they believed that the establishment needs to have an efficient automated billing system. For the improvement of the manual system, the proponents proposed a system to make a program which interface contains the features found on the billing form. When the program with built-in formula for the computation is integrated to the system, the manual computation
Hospital Billing System
by Information Technology Students
De La Salle Lipa
...
Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
Mataas na Kahoy Community Hospital is a newly opened establishment and has been operating for only three months, that is why nearly half of the method/work procedures are conducted manually, may it be on the patient’s record of admission, on the inventory of the medicines and on their billing system.
Since there is no technology used, existing billing system of the hospital is operated manually. The billing staff fills-up a printed billing form with the price based on various treatments and facility and equipment used by the patient. The staff manually computes the total bill with the use of a calculator. This procedure is very time-consuming, inconvenient, and prone to error. Total bills have to be rechecked/recomputed several times to ensure accuracy and avoid incorrect information. Thus, the staff has to repeat all the computation from the start. Hospital’s copy of the patients’ bill is kept on a file folder, arranged by the date when the patient has been discharged, in their record section and when a patient requests for a copy of their bill, the staff has to manually browse the needed record through the entire file folder. Page 1 of 43
Based on the facts stated by the hospital’s billing staff, the proponents believe that this current system is not effective and efficient to the staff in generating the bills. That is why the proponents proposed a system because they believed that the establishment needs to have an efficient automated billing system. For the improvement of the manual system, the proponents proposed a system to make a program which interface contains the features found on the billing form. When the program with built-in formula for the computation is integrated to the system, the manual computation