Student
EGERTON UNIVERSITY NAKURU TOWN CAMPUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PROGRAM: BSC. COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT PROPOSAL: HOSPITAL PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUTHOR: YEGON K. DENIS REG. NO: SP13/20600/10 UNIT: COMP 402(SYSTEM PROJECT) SUPERVISOR: MR. KIMANI NJOROGE CO-ODINATOR: DR. ING. W.GIKARU VERSION: DRAFT
The Project proposal submitted to the Department of Computer Science, in partial fulfilment for the Award of Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science. March 2013 DECLARATION
I YEGON K. DENIS do hereby declare that this Project Proposal is my original work and has not been published and/or submitted for any other degree award in any other University before.
STUDENT’S SIGNATURE: …………………. DATE: ______________
SUPERVISOR’S APPROVAL
SIGNATURE: …………………… DATE: ______________
ABSTRACT
Patients are the foundation of medical practices in medical sectors and it is crucial that their information on illness and health measures are well attended to. The Administrators and staff of Kenyan hospitals have been experiencing major problems in organizing and managing patient’s information. There have been reports of missing patient information, lack of security, and privacy on patient information, and hard time in allocation of patients to doctors on duty. There has also been poor ward and bed allocation to patients who are retained in hospital for further treatment and observations.
HPMS will capture registration processes done by front desk staff who will issue Patient Identification Number (PID) to new patients, assignpatients to Doctors on various cases whether dental, maternity, physician, surgery and children cases, Diagnosis for diseases, and also Facilitate the admission Patients (allocation of beds in various
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PROGRAM: BSC. COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT PROPOSAL: HOSPITAL PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUTHOR: YEGON K. DENIS REG. NO: SP13/20600/10 UNIT: COMP 402(SYSTEM PROJECT) SUPERVISOR: MR. KIMANI NJOROGE CO-ODINATOR: DR. ING. W.GIKARU VERSION: DRAFT
The Project proposal submitted to the Department of Computer Science, in partial fulfilment for the Award of Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science. March 2013 DECLARATION
I YEGON K. DENIS do hereby declare that this Project Proposal is my original work and has not been published and/or submitted for any other degree award in any other University before.
STUDENT’S SIGNATURE: …………………. DATE: ______________
SUPERVISOR’S APPROVAL
SIGNATURE: …………………… DATE: ______________
ABSTRACT
Patients are the foundation of medical practices in medical sectors and it is crucial that their information on illness and health measures are well attended to. The Administrators and staff of Kenyan hospitals have been experiencing major problems in organizing and managing patient’s information. There have been reports of missing patient information, lack of security, and privacy on patient information, and hard time in allocation of patients to doctors on duty. There has also been poor ward and bed allocation to patients who are retained in hospital for further treatment and observations.
HPMS will capture registration processes done by front desk staff who will issue Patient Identification Number (PID) to new patients, assignpatients to Doctors on various cases whether dental, maternity, physician, surgery and children cases, Diagnosis for diseases, and also Facilitate the admission Patients (allocation of beds in various
References: Books • AwaitE(2003)system analysis and design, sixth edition, Tata mc Grawhill publication. • Emirs/Nava the Fundamentals of Databases, Second Edition November 2006 publication by Image Computing Systems Laboratory Standish Group (1994) Websites • http://www.lonestarmso.com/powerpoint/Financial/20Ailments.pdf. • http:/www/Successful/20Health/20Information/20System/20Implementation.htm APPENDIX HPMS– Hospital Patient Management system. PID - Patient Identification Number.