INTRODUCTION

            A Clinic is an institution with an organized medical and nursing staff and with non-permanent facilities that provide a range of medical services like surgery, for people requiring intensive treatment or observation.

            It may also include facilities for childbirth and as well as various out patient departments.  A clinic is not made up of various departments where various cases are handled.  For example:

1. The surgery department is where patients are operated on in the theatre.
2. Obstetrics and gynecology unit are where pregnant women are taken care of.
3.  Pediatric department is where you treat children.

An Outpatient is a patient who does not reside in the clinic where he/she is being treated.  The registers of the outpatients are used for documentation of the outpatients. The data for outpatients registers are registration number, name of patient, age, sex, registration address etc.  The outpatient unit is made up of casualty section, records, outpatients theatre, various clinics etc. The treatment of the outpatients ends in the outpatient’s department while that of the in-patients ends in their various words

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

It could be very burdensome for someone who is seriously ill, wounded or weak to queue up in a clinic waiting for the doctor to attend to him/her or to pay for services and also get drugs. But when the designing and implementation of a computerized out-patient information system is achieved, a lot of problems and time wasted will be eliminated for the outpatient.

These problems includes:

• Time wastage
• Absence of doctors involved
• File Sorting

1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The aims and objectives of this project are listed below:

1. To improve checkup and treatment load functionality:  Staffing levels and appropriate skill mix per shift can be more easily determined by the shift modules.  This leads to less time spent in designing and mending rosters.
2. Better care planning:   Time spent on care planning is reduced, while the quality of what is recorded is improved.  This makes for more complete care plans and more complete assessments and evaluations.

1. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

Hospital organization today is the essential part of the medical care scheme, owing to the increasing complexity of medical problems.  It is very necessary that medical practitioners and specialists have an up to date automated service.

This study will examine the problem arising from manual operations of the outpatient information system and how these can be conquered by introducing the computer.  This research work also aim at designing a software that can replace the manual operations of the outpatient information system.

1.4       SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

            The significance of the study is that it eliminates:

Time wastage:  When this study is practiced, the time an out-patient wastes in registering, seeing the doctor, buying drugs will be eliminated.  This is because it will no longer be handled manually rather it is going to be computer based.

It also eliminates inconveniency:  In a situation whereby a patient registered in the clinic for the past three years and later came back in the fourth year for check-up, the information of that outpatient can be assessed conveniently using the computer, rather than searching for the out-patient information or records manually.

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