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Republic of Iraq

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

University of Baghdad - College of Science

Computer Science Department

Hospital Management System

A Project

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Assist.Lec. Sura Abed Sarab

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Title Page No.

Chapter 1 – Introduction 8

1.1 Overview 8

1.2 Abstract 8

1.3 Significance of the Study 9

1.4 Related Work 11

1.5 Project objectives 11

1.6 Background to the Study 12

1.7 System Requirement 15

1.8 Information about programming languages for the project 16

CHAPTER 2 - Project planning 19

2.1 Introduction 19

2.2 Definitions of problems 19

2.3 methodology, Project planning and scheduling 19

2.4 Design and Implementation of Hospital Management System 20

2.5 Relevance of Hospital information System 21

2.6 Technology and Efficiency 21

2.7 Financial Resources 23

CHAPTER 3- Explain the practical application 24

3.1Introduction 24

3.1Login interface 24

3.2 Main program interface 25

List of Tables

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Table Name

Page

No.

Table (1.1): Hardware Requirement 15

Table (1.2): Software Requirements 15

List of Figures

Table Name Page

No.

Figure (3-1): Login interface 24

Figure (3-2): Main program interface 25

Figure (3-3): recording all patient data 26

Figure (3-4): show all patient data 27

Figure (3-5): entering the patient's financial information 28

Figure (3-6): room information 29

Figure (3-7): add staff 30

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Overview

Human Body is a very complex and sophisticated structure and comprises of millions of

functions. All these complicated functions have been understood by man him, part-by-part

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their research and experiments. As science and technology progressed, medicine became an

integral part of the research. Gradually, medical science became an entirely new branch of

science. As of today, the Health Sector comprises of Medical institutions i.e. Hospitals,

HOSPITALs etc. research and development institutions and medical colleges. Thus the

Health sector aims at providing the best medical facilities to the common man .

1.2 Abstract

Hospital Management System provides the benefits of streamlined operations, enhanced

administration, control, superior patient care, strict cost control and improved profitability.

HMS is powerful, flexible, and easy to use and is designed and developed to deliver real

conceivable benefits to hospitals. More importantly it is backed by reliable and dependable

support. The project 'Hospital Management System' is based on the database, object oriented

and networking techniques. As there are many areas where we keep the records in database

for which we are using MY SQL software which is one of the best and the easiest software to

keep our information. This project uses JAVA as the front-end software which is an Object

Oriented Programming and has connectivity with MY SQL. Hospital Management System is

custom built to meet the specific requirement of the mid and large size hospitals across the

globe. All the required modules and features have been particularly built to just fit in to your

requirement. This package has been widely accepted by the clients in India and overseas. Not

stopping only to this but they are highly satisfied and appreciating. Entire application is web

based and built on 3 tier architecture using the latest technologies. The sound database of the

application makes it more users friendly and expandable. The package is highly customizable

and can be modified as per the needs and requirements of our clients. Prolonged study of the

functionalities of the hospital and its specific requirement has given it a wonderful shape both

technically and usability wise. It covers all the required modules right from Patient

Registration, Medicine details, Doctor, Wards, , Admin, Store, Patient appointment, bill

payment, record modification, discharge details etc. Human Body is a very complex and

sophisticated structure and comprises of millions of functions. All these complicated

functions have been understood by man him, part-by-part their research and experiments. As

science and technology progressed, medicine became an integral part of the research.

Gradually, medical science became an entirely new branch of science. As of today, the Health

Sector comprises of Medical institutions i.e. Hospitals, HOSPITALs etc. research and

development institutions and medical colleges. Thus the Health sector aims at providing the

best medical facilities to the common man.

Problem Statement Since Hospital is associated with the lives of common people and their

day-to-day routines so I decided to work on this project. The manual handling of the record is

time consuming and highly prone to error. The purpose of this project is to automate or make

online, the process of day to-day activities like Room activities; Admission of New Patient,

Discharge of Patient, Assign a Doctor, and finally compute the bill etc. I have tried my best to

make the complicated process Hospital Management System as simple as possible using

Structured Modular technique Menu oriented interface. I have tried to design the software in

such a way that user may not have any di culty in using this package further expansion is

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possible without much e ort. Even though I cannot claim that this work to be entirely

exhaustive, the main purpose of my exercise is perform each Hospital's activity in

computerized way rather than manually which is time consuming. I am confident that this

software package can be readily used by non-programming personal avoiding human handled

chance of error.

1.3 Significance of the Study

The study is important to the hospital patients since they could have medical information

without experiencing delays and incorrect information. If they wanted to access their medical

history, they would not be going through a difficult process. The hospital especially the

pharmacy and billing department would not go through a lot of paper reports when it comes

to payments and accounting records. The use of paper would still be there but it could be

reduced so that excessive paper loads would not be a problem.

The study was also significant to the staffs since they would be able to register, update,

delete, and search information within the system. It was beneficial to the hospital since it

could improve their management through connecting all their existing computers in one

system. In general, the study was important to the hospital and patients for it could serve as

an applicable tool to maintain the productivity and quality of service in the hospital.

Hospital is a leading among the public hospital. Health system functioning depends on

production and use of quality health data and information at all levels of the health system.

This study serves as a starting point for the assessment of HIS based on the situation in

public to identify the strengths and weakness of the system in improving health system

functioning. The study forms a basis for further research on evidence based management of

health services in general and specifically lead to generation of new ideas for better and more

efficient management of health facilities in Nairobi and the country at large. The study will

look at the use of hospital information system in a private and a public hospital.

Findings and recommendations of the study would contribute towards the ongoing efforts

of ministry of health to develop better health management operations system that would

benefit facilities and healthcare workers identify their weakness and thus propose better ways

that could help improve their efficiency through improved information use. The findings of

the study will be used by all health care workers and health care managers as and will not

rely on haphazard personal experiences or subjective personal judgments or of friends

/relative other than base their decisions and actions on concrete evidence and thus help re-

invent themselves as problem solvers.

1.4 Related Work

Hospital Management System (HMS) is designed for multispecialty hospitals, to cover a

wide range of hospital administration and management processes of patient-centric system. It

is an integrated end-to-end Hospital Management System that provides relevant information

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across the hospital to support effective decision making for patient care (medical records

management and billings), and hospital administration, in a seamless flow. In existence, some

researchers have contributed positively in the improving of health care institutions

management systems. Therefore, we discuss in this section below, some of the related works

done in hospital management system by researchers in the field .

The work of [8] focused on understanding the performance indicators of Hospital

information systems (HIS), summarizing the latest commonly agreed standards and protocols

like Health Level Seven (HL7) standards for mutual message exchange, HIS components,

etc. The study is qualitative and descriptive in nature and most of the data is based on

secondary sources of survey data. However, the researchers identified several modules for the

implementation of E-Hospital Management and Hospital Management System in which

Emergency Management was one of them. The contents operation within this module

excludes the incorporation and use of Biometric Fingerprint Technology. Thus, this indicates

that emergency cases in the intensive units where the registration of patients is trivial cannot

be handled adequately with respect to time. It was noted that the success factors of E

HMS / HIS tend to vary depending upon leadership support, training, technology adoption,

user friendliness, etc. within a country.

]1 [identified the challenges existing in Mother-love Hospital, such as Data redundancy,

data inconsistency, difficulty in accessing data, data isolation, integrity problems, atomicity

problem, concurrent access anomalies, and some security problems. They cited [4] among

others which pinpointed at techniques behind Database Management technologies, and thus

overcome the existing challenges. The system is visualized as a web based application with

three tier architecture. This architecture provides an increased degree of security because its

multiple zones isolate protected healthcare data making it difficult for a hacker to get system-

level access to the database. The solution proffered by this system did not incorporate

enabling technology to handle patients' in critical condition(s) .

1.5 Project objectives

The objective of this project is to develop hospital management software based on

Microsoft window application with structured Query language (T-SQL and SQL Server as a

database) as the back-end database hospital from file based system to a computer database

system. This software will help the company to be more efficient in handling the daily

activities and registration of their patients. The purpose of this project is to give a complete

requirement documentation, design, and implementation of the software. It also explains the

user interface, hardware and software and different models that could be used to develop

software such as this.

Hospital are the essential part of our lives, providing best medical facilities to people

suffering from various ailments, which may be due to change in climatic conditions,

increased work-load, emotional trauma stress etc. It is necessary for the hospitals to keep

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track of its day-to-day activities & records of its patients, doctors, nurses, ward boys and

other staff personals that keep the hospital running smoothly & successfully.

But keeping track of all the activities and their records on paper is very cumbersome and

error prone. It also is very inefficient and a time-consuming process Observing the

continuous increase in population and number of people visiting the hospital. Recording and

maintaining all these records is highly unreliable, inefficient and error-prone. It is also not

economically & technically feasible to maintain these records on paper. Thus keeping the

working of the manual system as the basis of our project. We have developed an automated

version of the manual system, named as "Administration support system for medical

institutions" .

The main aim of our project is to provide a paper-less hospital up to 90%. It also aims at

providing low-cost reliable automation of the existing systems. The system also provides

excellent security of data at every level of user-system interaction and also provides robust &

reliable storage and backup facilities .

1.6 Background to the Study

Healthcare especially in the developed world is characterized by rapidly increasing use of

information technology in patient care, increasing documentation, coding and billing, and

management. Rise of health information technology worldwide is increasing the efficiency of

health service delivery, reducing medical errors, improving quality of care and providing

better information for patients and physicians (Pollak and Lorch, 2007:4).

The overall goal of the information management function is to obtain, manage, and use

information to improve health care and medical services, performance, governance and

management and support processes.

The importance of healthcare to individuals and governments and its growing costs to the

economy have contributed to the emergence of healthcare as an important area of research

for scholars in business and other disciplines. Information systems (IS) have much to offer in

managing healthcare costs and in improving the quality of care (Kolodner et al. 2008: 394).

In additional, Piontek et al., (2010: 618) asserts that healthcare influences the quality of

human lives and function in the society. Healthcare mistakes have serious consequences that

can affect ability to carry out social and productive endeavors. Recent reports highlight the

gravity of adverse events in hospitals and the dangers such events pose to individuals and the

public. Healthcare information systems have changed the healthcare industry drastically over

the last decade as well as the last few years (Abraham & Jungles).

The forces of competition and advancements in healthcare technology are pushing

hospitals to follow the trend. Paperless healthcare systems have become inevitable and any

healthcare institute that doesn't follow this trend will fall behind the rest of the industry.

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Health information system is a must and the faster this is adopted the more successful the

healthcare facility will be.(Swanson et al. 2010: 9). Delone and Mclean being one of the most

cited models in the fields of information systems seeks to provide a comprehensive

understanding of information systems success by identifying, describing, and explaining the

relationships between six success variables categories: systems quality, information quality,

user, user satisfaction, individual impact, and organizational impact. Delone & Mclean

(2003) model provides a comprehensive frame work for measuring the performance of the

information system and enhances the understanding of information systems success.

World Health Organization (WHO, 2008) cautions that, the goal of a health information

system is often narrowly defined as the production of good-quality data. The ultimate goal is

to produce relevant information that health system stakeholders can use for making

transparent and evidence-based decisions for health system interventions. Health information

management system performance should therefore be measured not only on the quality of

data produced, but on evidence of the continued use of data to improve health system

performance, respond to emergent threats, and improve health (WHO, Improving health

information systems in terms of data availability, quality and use often requires interventions

that address a wide range of possible 'determinants of performance.

Health information systems recognizes that although new developments in technology,

including the use of the internet and other modes of communication offer great potential in

the flow of information amongst the providers and recipients regarding the provision and

management of healthcare services, the Kenyan health sector remains far behind in taking

advantage of such developments to improve reporting (HIS, 2008). Despite vast amounts of

resources and time invested in the development and implementation of health information

systems, health data is barely used by health workers for service delivery planning and

decision-making. Performance is grossly under reported with developments to improve

information management lagging behind other sectors improvement activities; the whole

culture of information generation and use remain under-developed; and mechanisms for

validating and assuring reliability are not optimally functional.

1.7 System Requirement

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Hardware Requirement

Disk spaceRAMProcessor

5400 RPM hard drive and

5 GB of available hard disk

space

1GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running

on a virtual machine)

1.6 GHz or faster

processor

Table (1.1): Hardware Requirement

Software Requirements

User Interface

design

Database Operating System

Visual studio

2013, NET

Framework 4.5

Microsoft SQL Server

Management studio ,SQL

Client

Windows XP, Windows 7 Windows 8,

Windows10

Table (1.2): Software Requirement

1.8 Information about programming languages for the project:

SQL

The origins of the SQL take us back to the 1970s, when in the IBM laboratories, new

database software was created - System R. And to manage the data stored in System R, the

SQL language was created. At first it was called SEQUEL, a name which is still used as an

alternative pronunciation for SQL, but was later renamed to just SQL. In 1979, a company

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called Relational Software, which later became Oracle, saw the commercial potential of SQL

and released its own modified version, named Oracle V2.

Now into its third decade of existence, SQL offers great flexibility to users by supporting

distributed databases, i.e. databases that can be run on several computer networks at a time.

Certified by ANSI and ISO, SQL has become a database query language standard, lying in

the basis of a variety of well-established database applications on the Internet today. With the

progress in database technology SQL-based applications have become increasingly

affordable for the regular user. This is due to the introduction of various open-source SQL

database solutions such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

SQL Standard

The SQL Standard has gone through a lot of changes during the years, which have added a

great deal of new functionality to the standard, such as support for XML, triggers, regular

expression matching, recursive queries, standardized sequences and much more. Due to SQL

Standard's sheer volume, a lot of database solutions based on it, such as MySQL or

PostgreSQL; do not implement the whole standard. In a lot of cases, the database behavior

for file storage or indexes is not well defined and it's up to the vendors of the various SQL

implementations to decide how the database will behave. This is the reason why, even though

all SQL implementations have the same base, they are rarely compatible.

SQL Language elements

The SQL language is based on several elements. For the convenience of SQL developers

all necessary language commands in the corresponding database management systems are

usually executed through a specific SQL command-line interface (CLI).

Clauses - the clauses are components of the statements and the queries

Expressions - the expressions can produce scalar values or tables, which consist of

columns and rows of data

Predicates - they specify conditions, which are used to limit the effects of the

statements and the queries, or to change the program flow

Queries - a query will retrieve data, based on a given criteria

Statements - with the statements one can control transactions, program flow,

connections, sessions, or diagnostics. In database systems the SQL statements are used

for sending queries from a client program to a server where the databases are stored. In

response, the server processes the SQL statements and returns replies to the client

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program. This allows users to execute a wide range of amazingly fast data manipulation

operations from simple data inputs to complicated queries.

C#

C# is a general-purpose, modern and object-oriented programming language pronounced

as "C sharp". It was developed by Microsoft led by Anders Hejlsberg and his team within

the .Net initiative and was approved by the European Computer Manufacturers Association

(ECMA) and International Standards Organization (ISO). C# is among the languages

for Common Language Infrastructure and the current version of C# is version 7.2. C# is a lot

similar to Java syntactically and is easy for the users who have knowledge of C, C++ or Java.

A bit about. Net Framework . Net applications are multi-platform applications and

framework can be used from languages like C++, C#, Visual Basic, COBOL etc. It is

designed in a manner so that other languages can use it. know more about .Net Framework

Why C#?

C# has many other reasons for being popular and in demand. Few of the reasons are

mentioned below:

1. Easy to start: C# is a high-level language so it is closer to other popular

programming languages like C, C++, and Java and thus becomes easy to learn for

anyone.

2. Widely used for developing Desktop and Web Application: C# is widely used for

developing web applications and Desktop applications. It is one of the most popular

languages that is used in professional desktop. If anyone wants to create Microsoft

apps, C# is their first choice.

3. Community: The larger the community the better it is as new tools and software will

be developing to make it better. C# has a large community so the developments are

done to make it exist in the system and not become extinct.

4. Game Development: C# is widely used in game development and will continue to

dominate. C# integrates with Microsoft and thus has a large target audience. The C#

features such as Automatic Garbage Collection, interfaces, object-oriented, etc. make

C# a popular game developing language.

CHAPTER TWO

2.1 Introduction:

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This chapter provides a comprehensive definition of the problem, people's perception of

the problem, and then provides a conceptual strategy for problem solving, ways to solve it,

the importance of problem solving, and then it passes to theoretical program design for

problem solving and technology. The study used to solve this problem.

2.2 Definitions of problems

A theoretical study of the problem and how to solve it

Problems with conventional system:

1. Lack of immediate retrievals: -The information is very difficult to retrieve and to find

particular information like- E.g. - To find out about the patient's history, the user has to go

through various registers. This results in inconvenience and wastage of time.

2. Lack of immediate information storage: - The information generated by various

transactions takes time and efforts to be stored at right place.

3. Lack of prompt updating: - Various changes to information like patient details or

immunization details of child are difficult to make as paper work is involved.

4. Error prone manual calculation: - Manual calculations are error prone and take a lot of

time this may result in incorrect information. For example: calculation of patient's bill based

on various treatments.

5. Preparation of accurate and prompt reports: - This becomes a difficult task as information

is difficult to collect from various registers.

2.3 Methodology. Project planning and scheduling

Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such

as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment.

Initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project

are determined. Following this step, the durations for the various tasks necessary to complete

the work are listed and grouped into a work breakdown structure. The logical dependencies

between tasks are defined using an activity network diagram that enables identification of the

critical path.

We have used Iterative and Incremental Development model (IID) for our project

development. This development approach is also referred to as Iterative Waterfall

Development approach. Iterative and Incremental Development is a software development

process developed in response to the more traditional waterfall model. This model is

designed to take care of such big project. The large and complicate project chiefly demand

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better development and testing procedure. The waterfall model is well known for its repeated

testing process. Hence I choose the waterfall model for developing my software.

2.4 Design and Implementation of Hospital Management System

Hospitals are information-intensive organization and pay great attention to information

management and processing, which have to be to be carried out using appropriate

information system. Hospital information system and clinical information system are

computer- based systems used in hospitals to assist the overall management of the health

care facility through information about diseases and information about patient care (Haux,

2004) in terms of record keeping of patient information, accounting, human resource

management, asset management, and stock management and knowledge management.

Task of the hospital information system is to support patient care and associated

administration by providing: information, primarily about patients that information must be

correctly collected, stored, processed and documented; Knowledge, primarily about diseases-

such as drug actions and adverse effects-to support diagnosis and therapy; information about

the quality of patient care and hospital performance and costs (Haux, 2004). Hospital

management system is of great importance in modern hospital. Liu stated that the system

must be made of several parts such as: marking card, registration, medical treatment, drug

information management, pharmacy dispensing, emergency, data dictionary maintenance,

database backup, report printing and so on. There are seven function modules that are to be

considered, including: Emergency Register Management, Price Making, Charge, Nurse

Station Management, and Data Dictionary Maintenance. Based on the above design, the

system can provide high quality treatments and good services for patients and their families.

2.5 Relevance of Hospital information System

Due to extensive changes in medical technology and increased expectation of patients in

the twenty-first century hospitals that lack hospital information Systems will not be able to

compete with other hospitals. The most important necessity and reason for hospitals

information systems automation are inefficiency manual procedures (Meinert &

Peterson2009:9). Hospital information systems help to improve operational efficiency, care

quality and more informed decision making. According to Ghosh (2010), hospital

information systems give comfortable and quick access to patient data.

2.6 Technology and Efficiency

Technology as the sub-factors hardware, software and connectivity, the hardware needed

should be identified before the introduction of the system. This means that at the start of the

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project an assessment should be made about the hardware already available and the hardware

which is still needed for full introduction of the system. One of the major concerns with IS, is

the fact that users often claim that they are not user friendly and lack intuitive data input. The

way in which data is put into a system reflects the individual's practice style. The interface

design and structure of the data need therefore to conform to each other. The other issue is

that it depends on the technology being used. Flexibility and adaptability is also a challenge

when introducing such a system. Looking for the right terminology for input is also a concern

Software content issues include the lack of local content creation, the language used and the

relevance of content to the local situation. Appropriate language is frequently neglected in

ICT programmers and little content is available in local languages for health programmers.

Another concern of any health organization in the integration of health information systems

is the fact that healthcare institutions need timely patient information from various sources at

the point of- care. This means buying a fully functional system fulfilling all their needs from

one vendor. This suggests working with standards for better data integration (Kuhn et.

al2001). With connectivity one has to deal with things like the lack of an enabling telecom

policy and regulatory environment; access to electricity, solar power options, back-ups,

insufficient infrastructure, connectivity access and high costs. The better these things are

functioning the greater the chance for successful implementation. The actual integration of

isolated systems is an important issue for the success of an information system. The use of

simpler systems fitted better with the clinical work processes should also add to better

solutions.

2.7 Financial Resources

Generally, there is little investment in ICT for health in most developing countries. The

picture is one of fragmentation, with many different varieties of ICT being acquired from

different donors. Invariably, there is no national health information and information

technology infrastructure to underpin the delivery of health care. It is very important to make

a realistic financial plan for all the costs in the system before the introduction of the health

management information system (Gladwin et. al 2003:12).

Sustainability is very important when considering the introduction of the health

management information system in the organization, especially in local hospitals in

developing countries. Being able to continue supporting the system financially on the long

run is the important issue to consider. Plans for sustainability should be clearly expressed

ensuring that capital investments and costs are identified up front as well as ICT, capacity

and infrastructure requirements. Monitoring and evaluation is also part of the sustainability

failure to adopt a particular IM strategy may signal inappropriateness. Encouraging

partnerships between stakeholders on local, national, regional and international level

sustainability can grow.

CHAPTER THREE

3.1 Introduction

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In this chapter, we explain how to work on the application, enter the mechanism, and use

it with pictures, along with an explanation of each image about its content.

Explain the practical application

3.1 Login interface:

Figure 1

1-username: Enter the username

2- password: Enter the password

3-login: Button to enter the program

3.2 Main program interface

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Figure 2

About developer: About the programmer

Close app: Button to close the program

Patient registration: Login to record patient information

Patient information: Login to see patient information

Checkout: Log in to the account list

Room info: Access the room list and its information

Add staff: Register a new staff and information

3.3 recording all patient data

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Figure 3

The special interface for recording all patient data such as; name, age, disease, address,

type of disease, room number, building and price.

3.4 Show all patient data:

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Figure 4

The special interface for show all patient data such as name, age, disease, address, type

of disease, room number, building, price etc.

To search for the patient in the hospital and find out details.

3.5 entering the patient's financial information

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Figure 5

A page for entering the patient's financial information, the price of the medicine, the

price of the operation, in addition to the basic patient information to be saved in the

database.

3.6 room information

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Figure6

The page for adding rooms, types of rooms, usually, or VIP, room specialization, bed

number, room cost, etc.

3.7 add staff

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Figure7

A page to add or search for any employee or doctor in the hospital and know all the

details.

CHAPTER FOUR

Results and Discussion

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The project results are summarized that despite several difficulties, whether software or

bad support, we have been able to program a simple and basic program for hospital

management and knowing almost all details, whether for patients or rooms or for the staff

and we can use and apply in Iraqi hospitals to support hospitals and help by introducing

technology to hospitals and also we can in the future of work On developing this project to

be better in all respects, we also explained in our research the problem that the project will

address and the people's view of the problem and how the work was previously and how we

are trying through our research to help, even with a small part of treating the problem and

pushing technology forward and help to introduce computers and their technologies to Iraqi

hospitals, and this is important This position, as all developed countries do not use the papers

in the hospital records or in their financial transactions, but have moved to apply the

technology in their hospitals and transfer them to the electronic system.

This project has been a rewarding experience in more than one way. The entire project

work has enlightened us in the following areas:

a) We have gained an insight into the working of the HOSPITAL. This represents a typical

real world situation.

b) Our understanding of database design has been strengthened this is because in order to

generate the final reports of database designing has to be properly followed.

c) Scheduling a project and adhering to that schedule creates a strong sense of time

management.

d) Sense of teamwork has developed and confidence of handling real life project has

increased to a great extent.

e) Initially, there were problem with the validation but with discussions, we were to

implement validations.

CHAPTER FIVE

5.1 Introduction

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This chapter gives an overview of the findings, conclusion and recommendations made

from the study. These are based on the objectives and research questions of the study.

The aim of the study was to find out the use of hospital information management system

in provision of relevant and effective services in Kenyatta hospital and Mater hospitals. It is a

comparative study between a private and public hospital.

Objectives of the study were to:

1. To assess the use of the hospital information systems in the two selected hospitals.

2. Establish the extent to which the hospital information system provides accurate and

relevant information of the patient.

3. Establish the perception of the healthcare workers towards the system.

4. Find out the challenges faced in the use of hospital information management systems in

the hospitals.

5. Find out possible solutions to the identified.

5.2 Challenges in Use of Hospital Management System

The fourth objective of this study was to establish challenges healthcare workers in both

hospitals encounter in the use of hospital information management system.

The main challenges encountered in:

Mater hospital as system being slow, poor changeover between the new and old system, Few

ICT staff to assist when needed, system keeps going on and off, and incapability between the

old and new system., few ICT staff to assist when needed, few computers for use, inadequate

software coverage, systems is slow and lack of training of users, system not yet implemented

in some areas. Were found out as system providing inaccurate information, respondents not

knowledgeable with the system, System not user friendly, and employees having negative

attitude towards the system. Respondents' recommendations on improving system.

In Mater Hospital more respondents would want development of electronic resource planning

system for the hospital and development of specific tools to the current structure.

5.3 Conclusion and Future work

The project Hospital Management System (HMS) is for computerizing the working in a

hospital. The software takes care of all the requirements of an average hospital and is capable

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to provide easy and effective storage of information related to patients that come up to the

hospital.

It generates test reports; provide prescription details including various tests, diet advice,

and medicines prescribed to patient and doctor. It also provides injection details and billing

facility on the basis of patient's status whether it is an indoor or outdoor patient.

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9- https://www.freecodecamp.org/

10-https://www.codeconquest.com/

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