A MOBILE BASED MEDICAL APPOINTMENT AND CONSULTATION (MMAC) SYSTEM

Medical appointment and consultation is of necessity in the field of medicine which gives the doctor the opportunity to access, examine, test and diagnose a patient of an ailment or diseases. Several researches have been done in this domain whereby some researches allow a patient to book an appointment with a particular doctor and majority of these researches only handle the appointment section of the work. This prompted the researcher to delve into a real-time appointment scheduling whereby a patient only fixes a time and date and the system allocate a doctor available at that particular time and date and also handles the rescheduling of patients with doctors. Also, the system integrates a live consultation with a doctor available online. The study adopted object-oriented analysis and design approach and implemented the mobile application using android studio which is an integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Google, and JAVA was used as the choice of programming language for the logic and the frontend while PHP and MySQL were used for the backend. The research work played a major contribution in the field of medicine which allows and enable the patient to have a real time scheduling of appointments with a doctor and also allows patient and doctors to come online and have conversation and interact together.