Management system for National Health Insurance hospitals
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It has been observed that it is stressful for patients on the Ghana National Health
Insurance Scheme to get quality health care. This stress is due to congestion at the
hospitals that operate under the scheme. The congestion does not only waste the
time of the patients but can also cause death. There is also the need of sharing
medical and patient information among hospitals that operate under the scheme.
Inability of sharing data renders the work of the scheme inefficient.
This dissertation seeks to address the problem of congestions at the hospitals
that operate under the scheme. The project also seeks to address the problem of
how to access and manage patients and dispensary records in every hospital that
operates under the scheme. The approach of this project is to develop a mobile web
application to keep and manage patients and dispensary records. The main
assertion is that, this system will save time and will provide a means to access and
share medical information in every hospital under the scheme.
The system proposed composes of a fault tolerant database system, a web
interface and a mobile interface. The function of the fault tolerant database is
keeping and managing the data. That of the web interface is assisting the hospital
staff to administer their services. The mobile interface is a scheduling application
that will enable patients to book appointments with a doctor at a specific hospital.
The web interfaces deals with the need of sharing data among hospitals and
the scheduling application is the means of controlling the perceived congestion at
the hospitals that operate under the scheme.