A Computerized Patient Records Management System At Kansanga Medical Centre

ABSTRACT

This is a report of a project study that was carried out at Kansanga Medical Center in Kampala

(Kampala District). It is a Computerized Patient Records Management System with an objective of

managing and monitoring patients through proper keeping of their medical records. It also sends out

alerts and reminders to patient’s phones reminding them of things like their next visits to the doctor

and also gives doctors a chance to access the system from anywhere at any time using their mobile

phones. This solves problems like inefficiency in record keeping and error prone cost distribution

among others. To come up with the system, data was collected through interviewing of the doctors,

patients and nurses. Questionnaires were also used to identify activities at the Medical center as well

as observations. The information collected was analyzed then used to design and implement the

system.

The system was developed using HTML language to develop the front end of the program, SQL to

create the backend and PHP to connect to the database. It has a database that stores information about

the patients and doctors associated with them, nurses, wards among others. On top of that, a mobile

module is also included to enable doctors and other system users to update, edit and offer mobile

prescription to patients’ inquiries and prescriptions via mobile devices configured with the system.

This was archived by using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) developed in Net Beans and internetworked

by a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) as a network framework.