LORMA Colleges Chapter 4 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary This Hospital project Information study entitled is Bacnotan

to District an

System

sought

develop

Information System, a software solution for the Bacnotan District Hospital. patient which runs The project focuses on and patient billing the

information, computation

records, on a

retrieval web browser

through

Intranet of the hospital. Specifically, queries: 1. What are the problems encountered in the existing Information System of the hospital along the areas on: a. storage; b. access; and c. security? 2. What are the problems encountered by the hospital in updating the patient records and charts? 3. What features would be incorporated in the proposed Hospital Hospital? Information System of Bacnotan District it sought to answer the following

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LORMA Colleges The study is methodology Extreme because utilized in the development was chosen the of by the the

Programming. this method

This

researchers

abstracts

essential

activities of software development and lists them in their most primitive sequence of dependency. This this sequential development leads to a more usable system. Data gathering techniques employed to gather

necessary data to determine the requirement needed in the development of the proposed system, such techniques that were utilized by the researcher were interview, observation and document analysis.

Findings After a thorough investigation of the identified

problems, the following are the findings: 1. The problems identified encompass on the three areas

namely storage, access and security. a. Along the area on storage, the problems are redundancy of data and limited storage b. Along the area on access, the problems are the records are easily accessed because the shelves are open. c. Along the areas on security, the problems are the

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LORMA Colleges 2. If was found out that the patients records and charts are updated manually. In case the chart or record is full or no space provided to fill in information another paper is used. 3. The features incorporated to provide solutions to the problems are management of patient information,

management of patient records and charts, search engine mechanism, automatic retrieval of patient records and

charts, automatic computation of bills and management of user level.

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LORMA Colleges Conclusions Based on the findings, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. The Doctors, Nurses and Staff of Bacnotan District Hospital still utilize manual processes in its

patient management. 2. Existing procedures used in the Bacnotan District Hospital processing are of manual procedures used in in the the

patient-related

documents

Records Section is updating the patient records and charts. 3. The problems identified on the need a process of the based

Bacnotan

District

Hospital

computer

information system. Recommendations Based on the findings and conclusions, the researcher recommends the following: 1. Since it was determined that some of the processes ineffective and there exist problems in the

existing, an evaluation be conducted to test if the problems are addressed after the implementation of the Hospital Information System (HIS).

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LORMA Colleges 2. For future researchers, of on the the possible system restructuring is or

enhancement specifically

recommended, enhancement

design

interface,

and normalization of the current database and an additional feature shall be included such as medical inventory laboratory of medicines and equipment, directly patients from the

results

coming

laboratory, patients X-Ray results coming directly from the Radiology Department, patients records in Pharmacy and report and charts generation.

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