HOSPITAL PATIENT DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 'A Case Study of General Hospital NORTH-BANK Makurdi- Nigeria'

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.