Online Appointment System for Kotelawala Defence University Hospital

Abstract

Health care is a fast growing industry in the all over countries. Online Appointment scheduling is one of the key processes in this industry. This thesis focused on on-line appointment system for KDU hospital. The project title as “ONLINE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM FOR KOTELAWALA DEFENCE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL” it is a web based application. It maintains records of patient details, doctor details and appointment details. KDU online doctor appointment System contains two main modules. One module is the application designed for the patient that contains a login screen. The patient has to register himself before logging in to the application. After logging in, the patient can view the Doctor details. The patient has the option of decide on a doctor from the list of doctors and can view the doctor’s details. The patient can request for an appointment on his/her preferred day/time. The selected day/time slot will be reserved and patient received automated e-mail. The second module is the admin module that is designed on the website. The admin can add doctor, view patient’s details and doctor’s details and can view appointments also. The doctors also are given the access of updating their personal profiles. Apart from that, the system also facilitates the generation of a report of the patient’s history which will be generated by the admin, so that the doctor can view the patient’s history without any delay. Thus the time taken to treat a patient will be reduced and efficient, accurate and improved service could be provided to the patients. The system aims to help the patients to take appointment online through internet and track their records through it. KDU has been facing problems due to its paperbased appointment system. The increase in the number of patients visiting, it has become difficult to manage the appointment system manually. The purpose of this project is to solve these complications by creating custom-built database software to manage the appointment system The above mentioned web based system is designed according to object oriented Analysis and design techniques and UML (Unified modelling language) used to model the system. While the system is a web based solution the most powerful scripting language Angular js & PHP has used for building up the logic of the system. Bootstrap and HTML used to model interface. A MySQL has used at the back end for the database handling. Apache Friends XAMPP version 3.2.2 was used to implement a web server.