CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Outpatient Information System is used by the hospital to create, process and record their outpatient information. This system is used to calculate the patients punctuate to check up and treatment. It is an effective tool in the hand of the hospital management. A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician or other medical professional, although one who is visiting a physician for a routine check-up may also be viewed as a patient
The aim of computer based outpatient information system is to promote early intervention by the school and, when necessary, by the LA. The approach aims to ensure that rapid and appropriate action is taken to tackle absence problems as soon as they become apparent.
Patientss today have a broad scope of responsibility as health care providers that requires them, under some circumstances, to exercise independent professional judgment. When patientss exercise their judgment negligently, they may be held liable because courts hold them to a correspondingly higher level of accountability.
Patientss have been held liable for their failure to monitor and/or promptly respond to patients by informing physicians of significant changes in patients’ conditions. Under these types of circumstances, patientss have an affirmative check up and treatment to exercise their professional judgment to ensure that all adequate steps are taken to treat patients appropriately.
The pupil registration regulations govern the admissions and outpatient information registers that all hospitals must keep. They also regulate the power of special hospitals and maintained hospitals to grant leave of absence.
By law hospitals are required to record in the outpatient information register once at the beginning of the morning session and once during the afternoon whether the pupil is present, absent, engaged in an approved, or unable to attend due to exceptional circumstances as defined in regulation. If compulsory hospitals patients are absent the register must show whether the absence is authorized or unauthorized. It must also record the nature of any approved activities.