Hospital Enquiry System What is a Hospital Enquiry
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Hospital Enquiry System
What is a Hospital Enquiry System? This system provides information regarding the hospital and the patients admitted or registered in the hospital. It is basically a RDBMS (Relational database management system).
Links with departments Registration Appointment Investigations In-patients Out-Patient Management
The Enquiry system can provide information regarding: – Holiday Enquiry: Provides information of the days the institution is not working. – Patient Enquiry: This option can be selected to gather further information of the patient, like: Patient status, Patients name, and Address. – Appointments Enquiry: This option can be selected for checking the appointment status of a patient. – Consultants Enquiry: This option can be used to enquire about the consultants available in the hospital.
– Investigation Appointment Enquiry: This option can be selected for checking the appointment status of a patient. – Tariff Enquiry: This option can be used to enquire about the tariffs of the hospital. – Investigation Enquiry: This gives the details regarding the investigations performed in a particular department/lab. – In-patient Enquiry: Given a department and ward number this will list the names of all the patients admitted in that particular department. – OPD Roster Enquiry: Provides information regarding the working days of OPD and their Units.
Front and Back end Technologies: When a visitor makes an enquiry, the attendant simply enters the information into the form present on the screen (front end). This information is then sent to the server computer which contains the main database (backend). The information entered into the search screen and that present inside the database is tallied (process) and the desired results are received.
A typical client/server interaction
Advantages: Automatic backup of data. Multi-lingual interface. Comprehensive user security. It is fast and efficient.
Disadvantages: If power outage occurs, important data might be lost. Increased complexity.
