Introduction
The assignment is about the surgery. They want to update their administrative system for give more efficient system for both staff and their patients. Currently they involve several tasks with their system. Recording surgery appointments, doctors to visit patients, storing patients and staff information, producing invoices, and financial handling are the some of them. Now they want to do these works more efficiently with a new system.
Task 1
Answer Task 1 Part a
1. Recording appointments for patients to attend the surgery:
Database software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 1)
2. Recording appointments for doctors to visit patients at their homes:
Database software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 2) 3. Storing patient and staff details:
Database software, Spreadsheet software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 3)
4. Contacting patients, medical suppliers, other surgeries, local hospitals:
Communication software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 4)
5. Keeping an inventory of medical supplies:
Database software, Spreadsheet software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 5)
6. Financial data:
Spreadsheet software, Accounting software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 6)
7. Producing invoices :
Spreadsheet, Accounting software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 7)
8. Producing materials for staff training events :
Desktop publishing software, Presentation software, Word processing software:
(See Appendix 1.A Part 8)
9. Producing information documents for patients:
Desktop publishing, Word processing software:
(See Appendix 1.A Part 9)
Answer Task 1 Part b
Word Processing Software: Mostly suit for create high volume text documents also with simple single layer images. Easy to handle and learn so no need hard staff trainings. Can use for printing documents, create letters and so many text included documents.
Desktop Publishing Software: