A Web Based Hospital Management System For Iganga District Referral Hospital,Uganda

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The emergence of Hospital Information Systems has enabled quick communication by the staff and the immediate dissemination of patient information. However,at Iganga district referral hospital, there are challenges of inappropriate data Keeping practices, inaccurate reports, time wastage in data processing, storing and retrieval that are encountered by the hospital management. Therefore this paper describes the design of a web based hospital information management system as a solution to curb these challenges. Design science methodology was adopted by the study. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to obtain views on information system development and implementation in the hospital. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were used for front end design of the system user interfaces and My Structured Query Language(MySQL) was used for data management at the backend. Unit and Integration system tests were done and the system proved to provide efficient and effective patient services and healthcare administration.

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