Generalized Web Based System for Dental Services Management Institutes

Abstract

Oral healthcare industry mainly focuses on providing goods and services to patients that need treatments such as curative treatments, preventive treatments and palliative treatments. Then oral health care industry is one of the major component of healthcare industry in the world. Government hospitals and private hospitals of Sri Lanka are providing oral healthcare Services. Some private dental service institutes also are providing such services. With the fast-paced life of the busy modern world, the lack of information technology is making a significant impact on the efficiency of the daily functioning of the hospitals and other institutes, customer satisfaction and many other factors. In lots of institutes, all the treatments, assets/equipment maintenance related tasks are handled using a manual file-based system, which makes the effectiveness of treatments lower and produces a high maintenance cost. Developed system is a well-organized and generalized system which can be mapped for all types of dental services institutes and hospitals. Mainly, system will facilitate patient and staff registration, making appointments for treatments, tracking treatment details for each patient and keeping stock details. System also comprises of modules for report generating, handling payments and managing notifications through system users. From all other process models, the incremental development process was chosen as the process model for the system by considering all the advantages it has over the other models. The system is being developed in MVC(Model-View-Controller) architectural design using Code Igniter framework based on PHP (PHP Hypertext pre-processor) for server-side scripting with, HTML and CSS are used to create interfaces and to make it more appeal, AJAX is being used to make the system more user-friendly, and MySQL is being used to develop the database of the system. Apache webserver has been chosen to host the system. Sublime Text is being used as the code editor for the development. Those tools were helped to achieve the anticipated benefits.