National Health Insurance module for Yaresa mobile health application
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2016-04
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Abstract
As a middle income country, Ghana has made formidable strides in improving health care delivery
in the country. Notable among them is the introduction of the Community Health and Planning
Services system. This system was adopted to increase access to and use of health care services by
setting up health centers known us CHPS zones in the remote communities where it is particularly
difficult for Ghanaians to receive proper and timely medical attention. These health centers are
manned by few trained healthcare officers whose tasks are not limited to just providing health care
to patients but involve book keeping, report drafting and a number of other more administrative
tasks which takes a lot of time away from providing actual health care services to patients. One
such task identified by health officers is the preparation of NHIS insurance claims.
An ongoing Mobile Health project for CHPS zones has been developing an application to assist
health officers in performing some of these tasks. However this does not include preparation of
NHIS insurance claims which provides the basis for the project that this report discusses. The aim
of the project is to provide functionality to the existing Mobile Health application that facilitates
the preparation of NHIS insurance claims.
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Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Scienceation Systems, April 201
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Ghana, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Yaresa, health insurance claims