Web Based Patient Management System for Surgical Clinic of OPD at National Hospital of Sri Lanka

Abstract

Information systems for patient management in hospitals are in high demand to cope up with the increasing patient population day by day. Tasks managed through a patient management system range from patient registration, to the point of receiving medication from a doctor. Thereby tasks such as patient registration, patient medical record administration, queue number generation etc... have been considered crucial tasks in providing and managing of an effective service to patients that visit the Out Patients Department of National Hospital of Sri Lanka. Unfortunately the current file based manual system in the hospital would lead to a numerous number of issues such as misplacement of patient medical history records, surgery details etc. It also have many other drawbacks such as time consummates for patient record searching, manual queue number generation and confusion of patient records. This project is aimed at computerizing the processes involved with the patient management tasks of the surgical clinic at the OPD of NHSL, in order to carry them out efficiently and effectively. In order to achieve this goal, a thorough system study and investigation was carried out and tasks were analyzed about the current system. The major issues encountered by the hospital staff whilst carrying out the daily operations within the clinic was studied in detail. A new system is developed to overcome the identified drawbacks of the current system. The structures and the new functions of the system are analyzed and designed using UML diagrams and ERD‟s. Many benefits are catered with the new system such as easiness of patient record saving, retrieval, automatic queue number generation, prescription generation for doctors and medical information history storage. The methods used to develop the system include iterative waterfall model approach, UML and an entity relationship diagram was used to design the system. The languages used were MySQL, Php, HTML, Css and JavaScript.