School Clinic Management System

Chapter 1

Introduction

Background of the study

According to the quote, “Health is wealth”. It is essential that we have a healthy

body to enable us perform our everyday task and keeping track of it is very importance. In

today’s world, technology plays an important role in every industry as well as in our

personal lives. Out of all of the industries that technology plays a crucial role in healthcare

is definitely one of the most important. This merger is responsible for improving and saving

countless lives all over the world.

In the era of technology, where everything needs to be done efficiently and

effectively the existences of Clinic Management System (CMS) become necessary. The

used of CMS can enhance the services and also the work flow of all activity that happens

in hospitals where it helps in reducing the workload of medical staff, the number of man

power needed and it also make hospitals management become more manageable and

easier to control. (Azuan, 2013)

Currently, many clinics in our country are still store patients records by using paper

or card manual system. Nurses needed to manually write down the patients information

and index the patients medical card. Then these medical cards are kept organized racks or

in the carbines. These works are so troublesome and plaguing.

Moreover, patients information is not secured.

 Nowadays there are several changes in health care sector the leading more doctors

to consider the impact of the information technology (IT) in their practices. The proposed

system is attempted to solve the patients record management problems that are facing in

many clinics. CMS is a central repository of information that can be updated and accessed

electronically within a clinic, allowing sharing of vital patient information between nurses

and doctors with security password access. the electronic patient record has a familiar

resemblance to traditional paper record that currently seen in many clinics.(Ping, 2010)

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

1. Existing
documents and
medicines
2. To determine the
Functional and Rapid Application
Development
Non-Functional
School Clinic
Requirements of  Requirements
Planning Phase Management
the developed  User Design Phase
system;  Construction System
Phase
3. Usability Testing
 Cutover Phase
in terms of:
a) Efficiency;
b) Helpfulness;
c) Security;
d) Control; and
e) Learnability
 FEEDBACK

Figure 1. Research Paradigm of School Clinic Management System

Statement of Objectives

The primary objectives of the study is to design, develop and test a School Clinic

Management System

Specifically, the proponents considered the following objectives in relation to

carrying out the project.

1. To determine the Functional and Non-Functional Requirements of the developed

system;

2. To develop a School Clinic Management System using Rapid Application System; and

3. To asses the usability of the developed system using SUMI in terms of:

a). Efficiency,

b). Helpfulness,

c). Security,

d). Control and,

e) Learnability.

Significance of the study

This will help the staff of the clinic to minimize the time and effort of finding the

documents;
 to the staff(bold). It would reduce time spend in finding the documents of the

patients.

to the researchers(bold). This system will improve the researchers knowledge and

abilities in developing a system, it can also help them gain more knowledge

in their field and can strengthen their self-confidence and trust with their selves in

a future undertaking.

to the future researchers(bold). The available data would be useful to the future

researchers by using the existing ones as their reference. If needed, they

can make further improvements with the system that they can use for the future

study.

Scope and Delimitations

The School Clinic Management System aim to solve all the aforementioned

problems and to provide easy accessibility with all the documents and information

that the school clinic handles. The system will provide a more accurate record of

all the students- from their personal information to their medical background.

it will also provide the complete list of all the available medicines- mostly basic kinds

that the students can use.

The system will not cover that is not mentioned above.