DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

An Electronic Patient Management System is any tool used to assist in the delivery of clinical care from point of care initiation to completion. Tools include computer based attendance scheme for patient, payment processing software and informationtechnology systems, blood group and genotype to avoid test result mismatch of data.Electronic based attendance scheme for Patients is used by hospital to create process and record their attendance scheme for patients information. This system is used to calculate the nurse punctuate to work. Its an effective tool in the hands of the hospital management.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Prior to the problem encountered with patients attitude to their check up and treatment, the nurses laxity laziness over their duties, the need arose to develop a software that will be able to solve the problem. The problem caused by the use of manual method of keeping outpatient information and the use of manual method of keeping attendance scheme for patients can only be solved by computerizing the hospital attendance scheme for patients and computerizing the hospital outpatient information system.

1.3 Objectives of the Study

The primary purpose of this project is to enhance the reliability, security, and convenience in the administration of Shonahan Hospital, Nsukka, Enugu, and to have a database that contains complete and comprehensive details of patient departmental payment records as well as a computer based attendance scheme.

The subsidiary objectives of this project are:

1. To improve checkup and treatment load functionality: Staffing level and appropriate skillmix per shift can be more easily determined by the shift modules. This leads to less time spent in designing and amending roasters.

2. Better care planning: Time spent on care planning is reducing, while the quality of what is recorded improved. This makes for more complete care plans and more complete assessments and evaluations.

1.4 Significance of the Study

A patient management system works best as an early intervention; more success was reported when targeted at more entrenched cases.While some patients care is usually required, the nursing supervisees new checkup and treatment include setting up checkup and treatment schedules, assigning checkup and treatment to a nursing staff, and ensuring that each member of the nursing team is adequately trained.