Web Based Report & Invoice Generating System For Hope Diagnostics Medical Laboratory Service

Abstract

ABSTRACT Hope Diagnostics Medical Laboratory Service is providing a great service to people who live in Panadura area by doing their medical laboratory testings accurately. Currently they have nine centres to collect samples and collected samples are brought to Panadura main laboratory for testings. Hope Diagnostics has been using Ms Excel sheets for report printing and a computerized system only for the payment transactions. The process involves entering details and results of each patient one by one to the excel sheet. This can be time consuming, leading to decreased productivity, data redundancy, lack of accuracy and etc. In order to eliminate this issue, and to improve their service for community, the administration has decided to implement a web-based solution. The web-based report and invoice generating system is designed and to be implemented to overcome those problems mentioned above through automating their processes. This system is mainly designed for automating the data manipulation. Proposed system is developed based on the Rational Unified Process(RUP) methodology. This methodology is selected since the proposed system has iterative functions. RUP is an appropriate software development life cycle methodology for systems like this proposed system. This web based system is basically designed by using the Unified Modelling Language (UML). PHP Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) [7] [8] for scripting, MySQL [7][8] for database handling and Apache as the local server are built in WAMP server for web development and html, [7] CSS [7], JavaScript [7] [8] for web designing and Windows as the platform are to be used for the system development. Hope this designed web-based report and invoice generating system for Hope diagnostics medical laboratory service will ensure a quality service for the company and to the community.