Abstract:
Outpatient management
systems in hospital today necessitate a competent
administration when handling patients,
generating reports,
patient details which serves as a
key
factor for the flow of business transa
ctions in Sokoto State Specialist Hospital
.
Unfortunately the current outpatient
management system leads to misplacement
of drug
details,
and late release of reports and insecurity to records. This research project is
aimed at
computerizing all the records about patients, staff a
nd doctors management
.
In order to achieve this goal, a thorough System Study and investigation was carried
out an
d data was collected and analyzed about the current system using document and data
flow diagrams. The concept of report production has been computerized hence, no more
delay in report generation to the hospital manager. Errors made on hand held calculators
are
dealt out completely The method used to develop the system include iterative waterfall
model approach, dataflow, logical and entity relationship diagram were used to design the
system and finally the language used were MySql
and php
