Thesis: Electronic Health Record and Local Community Hospitals

Context of the Study
Today, computerization is a major advancement in technology that helps in many ways: it makes information storage easier and faster thus it can save a lot of time and manpower, and many tasks are done in a certain amount of time.
Great amount of time is being consumed by information retrieval and the billing process of most Local Community Hospitals without computer generated system is slow. To be able to provide the medical needs of the rapidly growing population, Local Community Hospitals must be versatile to the current trends and innovation in today 's changes in technology.
One of the concerns of Local Community Hospitals nowadays is how to lessen the number paper works in having a transaction with the patient that could fasten the process of admission, discharging and billing of a patient. This greatly affects the profitability of the institution that makes the admission and billing of patients a long process.
Another concern is how to extend the accuracy in computing the patient bills, which is very essential in Local Community Hospitals. Because some patients are so smart that they can find a way that they do not have to pay their Local Community Hospitals bills. Some are having a difficulty in paying because of the slow process of computation which can take less or more than a month depends on the number of laboratory procedures or other cases.
Observing the institution; the researchers decided to propose a computerized patient monitoring and billing system that is intended to solve the concerns that they discovered. Efficient patient monitoring and billing management greatly affect areas of a Local Community Hospitals such as medical services, billing policies and price rates. With the help of this proposed computerized system the Local Community Hospitals can easily keep track and maintain each patient 's information.
The computerized patient monitoring and billing system is expected to help Local Community Local Community

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