Computerization of Patient Billing System; A Case Study of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this project was to develop a package for the Computerization of patient Billing system for the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Bon10 State. The Project also seek to find the opinion of Staff on whether Computerisation of patient Billing system preferred to the manual system. Today Computer are used in every aspect of life. In fact it is difficult to think of anything that is not helped in one way or the other by computers. Computers arc use in Government Schools, Business, Research, Engineering, Medicine and Revenue generation. Interview and the Hospital Records were used for the study. Staff of the Finance Department & Audit were interviewed to seek their opinion on the proposed Computerisation of the patient I3i1ling system and the existing manual system. The data collected from the interview and existing records were analysed. The finding of the study showed that; Staff of the Hospital preferred Computerising. Billing system as against the manual system because of its effectiveness, accuracy, security, reliability, speed and law personnel cost. With computerised billing system all revenue generations & patient’s records can be keyed regularly. Based on the finding it was recommended that the patient Billing system be Computerised to keep accurate records, improve Revenue base and block leakages.