Dependable Online Appointment Booking System for Nhis Outpatient in Nigerian Teaching Hospitals

Autor:	Adebayo Peter Idowu, Kehinde Oladipo Williams, Olajide Olusegun Adeosun
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Health services National health insurance Computer science Order (business) business.industry Health care medicine Appointment scheduling Medical emergency medicine.disease business Healthcare system
Zdroj:	International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology. 6:59-73
ISSN:	0975-3826 0975-4660
DOI:	10.5121/ijcsit.2014.6405
Popis:	The number of missed appointments in healthcare institutions in Nigeria caused problems, hence the need for integrated healthcare system to intervene and provide seamless care for patients. Appointment scheduling system lies at the intersection o f providing efficiency and timely access to health services. This research presents an online National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Outpatient Medical Appointment Booking System where NHIS patients can access and view any available personnel or doctor scin order to book an appointment with the corresponding time as specified by the available doctor. The system was developed using PhP, macromedia dreamweaver, apache and MYSQL. This is to ensure that the application is robust, cheap and is able to ru n on different platforms. The system provides the platform to facilitate the booking and management of patients’ appointment bookings. Patients can also view their appointment reports. It also provides the healthcare workers an easy access to manage patie nts’ appointments and to generate relevant reports.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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