Hospital Management System
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Medicine like many other professions today is faced with major problem of information management and resource sharing, in that reason the essence of writing on this particular topic cannot be over emphasized. This is more so as the visits patients take to the hospitals require the need to keep records of their health statistics, in such a manner that they can be easily retrieved and updated in a concurrent and simultaneous manner, while health personnel who need to update these statistics could also do so easily via any workstation in the hospital.
In developed societies, hospitals especially laboratories are equipped with computers to process patients samples and return the results to the operator (the Medical laboratory scientist). In such laboratories, details of previous visits by a patient such as attending doctors, laboratory attendants, nature of ailments etc are easily made available and help in a comprehensive medical record of the patients.
A comprehensive web-based system is the principal ingredient of a specialized Hospital Management System. It must possess all the ingredients of a centralized system with addition to procedures and processes that allow for simultaneous access to data at various points (nodes). Nigerians today have become also pre occupied with health and fitness that getting and staying healthy are quick becoming most of the greatest of all Nigerian pastimes. Being fit is now in vogue. There are many weekly and monthly health and fitness magazines, and currently diet and exercise books have consistently been among the “top ten” on non-fiction best-seller lists. Health and fitness-club memberships have soared and a 24-hour cable Television health network now offers comprehensive medical, scientific and self-care information. All these activities are facilitated by the programmable electronic device i.e. computer.
There are several thousands of areas the computer is applicable and new applications are
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Medicine like many other professions today is faced with major problem of information management and resource sharing, in that reason the essence of writing on this particular topic cannot be over emphasized. This is more so as the visits patients take to the hospitals require the need to keep records of their health statistics, in such a manner that they can be easily retrieved and updated in a concurrent and simultaneous manner, while health personnel who need to update these statistics could also do so easily via any workstation in the hospital.
In developed societies, hospitals especially laboratories are equipped with computers to process patients samples and return the results to the operator (the Medical laboratory scientist). In such laboratories, details of previous visits by a patient such as attending doctors, laboratory attendants, nature of ailments etc are easily made available and help in a comprehensive medical record of the patients.
A comprehensive web-based system is the principal ingredient of a specialized Hospital Management System. It must possess all the ingredients of a centralized system with addition to procedures and processes that allow for simultaneous access to data at various points (nodes). Nigerians today have become also pre occupied with health and fitness that getting and staying healthy are quick becoming most of the greatest of all Nigerian pastimes. Being fit is now in vogue. There are many weekly and monthly health and fitness magazines, and currently diet and exercise books have consistently been among the “top ten” on non-fiction best-seller lists. Health and fitness-club memberships have soared and a 24-hour cable Television health network now offers comprehensive medical, scientific and self-care information. All these activities are facilitated by the programmable electronic device i.e. computer.
There are several thousands of areas the computer is applicable and new applications are