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Abstract: Health care in Nigeria as in many other countries is confronted with growing demand for medical treatment and services. The medical records must appropriately have all of the patients' medical history. Physicians must maintain flawless records, because this document serves a number of purposes. This study on hospital patient datable management system was design to transform the manual way of searching, sorting, keeping and accessing patient medical information (files) into electronic medical record (EMR) in order to solve the problem associate with manual method. The existing system (manual) has been studied and hence a computer based application was provided to replace this manual method. These computer based systems generate the patient report as the patient register in and out of the hospital. This paper generally looks for a more accurate, reliable and efficient method of computer to facilitate patient record's keeping in General Hospitals to ensure efficient outcome that will lessen time consuming. The study proposed that the design of hospital patient database record will be a solution to the problem being experienced by the current manual method of keeping patient medical record.
Keywords: Data; Database; Patient; Hospital; Medical Record; Electronic Medical Record
I. INTRODUCTION
In the present era of globalization and advanced technology efficient record keeping cannot be overemphasized. Imagine the scenario when the manual processes and manual modes of instruction get replaced with electronic systems. One of such replacement can be done in the area of patient's database management system within a hospital. Developing patient database management system software would benefit the hospital management who can have effortless access to the data securely and more easily. Libraries keeps information on how many books are in the library, how many are been loaned out and to whom they are loaned and also the date and time this books were loaned or given out. School also keeps student's information or records. These records of students could include student's personal data such as name, sex, date of birth, level etc.
Hospitals are not excluded in record keeping. The records kept include patient data, which help to maintain patient's medical records. The medical records must have correctly all of the patient medical history. Physicians must maintain flawless records, because this document serves a number of...