University Of Technology: School Of Computer Science And It (Essay Sample)

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DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND IT.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE.
BSC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
PROJECT TITLE:
E-CLINIC APPLICATION.
BY: MBOYA SAMUEL MUSILI – C026-01-0648/2014.
A project proposal Submitted to the Department of computer science in the school of computer science and IT in partial fulfillment for the award of Bachelor of Science Degree in computer science.
DECLARATION.
I declare that this project proposal is my original work and that any references to publications has been clearly cited also affirm that this project proposal has not been presented in this university or any other university for the purpose of examination.
Signed……………………………… Date……………………………….
SAMUEL MUSILI MBOYA.
CERTIFICATION.
This is to confirm that the above student carried out the project proposal as detailed in this write up under my supervision.
Signed………………………………..Date……………………………
Mr. Morris Kaburu.
ABSTRACT
The health sector is a very vital system in today’s world. However, there are a number of hindrances that face it when it comes to offering their services to the patients effectively.
This system will offer an online platform that goes beyond these hindrances and offer solutions. The system will link caregivers with patients. The system will entail mainly the caregivers whereby there will be a profile of caregivers and ability to contact your caregiver of choice. In this case the caregiver can be health personnel or a good-hearted person in the community willing to help patients at a pay.
The geo-location of the caregiver too will be catered for depending on the different counties we have. Every caregiver will have his or her specified payment rates on hourly basis but there will be a difference in day and night payments.
There will also be the administrator sector where he/she can register a verified and credited caregiver and is able to view the activities going on the system and jobs taken.
Table of contents.
TOC \z \o "1-3" \u \hPAGEREF _Toc485919913 \hDECLARATION.2
PAGEREF _Toc485919914 \hCERTIFICATION.2
PAGEREF _Toc485919915 \hABSTRACT3
PAGEREF _Toc485919916 \hCHAPTER ONE6
PAGEREF _Toc485919917 \hINTRODUCTION6
PAGEREF _Toc485919918 \h1.1 Background information6
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT.PAGEREF _Toc485919919 \h7
PAGEREF _Toc485919920 \h1.2 OBJECTIVES.7
PAGEREF _Toc485919921 \h1.2.1 Main objective.7
PAGEREF _Toc485919922 \h1.2.3 Specific objectives.7
PAGEREF _Toc485919923 \h1.3 Research questions.8
PAGEREF _Toc485919924 \h1.4 Justification.8
PAGEREF _Toc485919925 \h1.5 Scope.8
PAGEREF _Toc485919926 \hCHAPTER TWO.9
PAGEREF _Toc485919927 \h2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW.9
PAGEREF _Toc485919928 \h2.1 Introduction.9
PAGEREF _Toc485919929 \h2.2 CASE STUDIES.10
2.2.1 Case study 1: Mayo ClinicPAGEREF _Toc485919930 \h10
2.2.2 Case study 2: WebMD for AndroidPAGEREF _Toc485919931 \h11
2.2.3 Case study 3: MedRepPAGEREF _Toc485919932 \h11
2.2.4 Case study 4: My ABC ClinicPAGEREF _Toc485919933 \h11
PAGEREF _Toc485919934 \h2.3 Summary.12
PAGEREF _Toc485919935 \h2.4 Research Gap.12
PAGEREF _Toc485919936 \h2.5 Proposed Methodology.13
PAGEREF _Toc485919937 \hCHAPTER THREE.13
PAGEREF _Toc485919938 \hMethodology.13
PAGEREF _Toc485919939 \h3.1 Introduction.13
PAGEREF _Toc485919940 \h3.2 Fact finding techniques.14
PAGEREF _Toc485919941 \h3.2.1 Interviews14
PAGEREF _Toc485919942 \hSample Interview Questions14
PAGEREF _Toc485919943 \h3.2.2 Observation15
PAGEREF _Toc485919944 \h3.2.3 Questionnaires15
PAGEREF _Toc485919945 \h3.3.4 Research15
PAGEREF _Toc485919946 \h3.3 System Development Procedures.16
PAGEREF _Toc485919947 \hBasic Requirement Identification16
PAGEREF _Toc485919948 \hDeveloping the initial Prototype16
PAGEREF _Toc485919949 \hReview of the Prototype17
PAGEREF _Toc485919950 \hRevise and Enhance the Prototype17
PAGEREF _Toc485919951 \h3.4 PRELIMINARY DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS18
PAGEREF _Toc485919952 \hIntroduction18
PAGEREF _Toc485919953 \hHARDWARE18
PAGEREF _Toc485919954 \hSOFTWARE18
Figure 1 Gantt chartPAGEREF _Toc485919955 \h18
PAGEREF _Toc485919956 \hReferences.19
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background information
As interest in improving the wellbeing and health of people all over the world, many systems are being integrated into the health world to improve service delivery in this particular sector.
Medical service and good health care all over the world is a very crucial necessity to the society. This is due to the nature of need for medical treatment in the event of an illness. Despite a lot of effort put in place by the government, more diseases are emerging day by day. This would make it difficult for the government to reach its health target as per the millennium goals.
This need of this great service has resulted to emergence of numerous private and public hospitals, medical centers as well as dispensaries (a community based one).
Hence, with an online system (E-clinic) it is guaranteed that many people will be reached at a lesser cost. This would make health providers more effective and efficient therefore playing a big part in achieving the set goals in the health sector and guarantees or else gives an assurance of meeting them earlier or in time.
Being able to securely capture and store the patient’s information in an application, the system will go further in ensuring that there is ease in accessing the information when needs comes without constraints.
This will help enhance information validity and consistency which is very crucial in any information system and consequently help in monitoring on how the adhere to their medication and contacting individuals who may have missed their medication in accordance to the way it has been prescribed.
This online platform will aid the patients in saving their time and money by visiting the clinic therefore finding long queues and failing to be served. This online platform helps them contact the caregivers and pick on a date for appointment with them at a specified time and date. Also the E-clinic will aid the patients contact the caregivers twenty four hours a day and seven days a week whenever there is an emergency and will get help immediately.
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT.
The absence of a well-established information system to link the caregivers with the patients has led to inconveniences in delivering service to patients. This has also led to the loss of patient and caregiver records.
This platform will link the caregivers, whereby in this case the caregiver is a good-hearted person who can care for the patients at their premises at a pay on hourly basis. The caregiver in this case will be registered by the administrator whereby he/she must have a certification identity.
This platform will also aid in capturing all patients’ health records and the caregivers (staff) records.
The main challenges that this platform is solving for the patients are:
* Resources and time wastage such as costs of travel to hospital and bills paid by in-patients.
* Inaccessibility to the health facility.
* Inconveniences such as environmental constraints.
The above listed challenges motivated me to develop an online application in which caregivers can get necessary information and immediate help for their patients.
1.2 OBJECTIVES.
1.2.1 Main objective.
1 To bridge the gap between the caregivers and patients brought about by the location and time.
1.2.3 Specific objectives.
1 To efficiently store all patients’ health records and caregivers’ records on an online platform for ease of retrieval.
2 To equip the patients with an ability to choose from various caregivers their caregiver of choice.
3 To offer a 24-hour service delivery to patients and have an efficient communication medium between the patients and caregivers.
1.3 Research questions.
* How are the health records for all patients managed?
* What is the approximate number of caregivers in a particular area?
* Is there internet connectivity within the area of study?
* How do the caregivers communicate with their patients?
* Do the patients get service on a 24hour timely basis?
1.4 Justification.
This system has been able to address these problems by countering each of the following ways:
Remote accessibility:-once a patient/caregiver has internet connections then they are able to access the application and pick a caregiver of their choice.
Critical capturing of large patient records. The manual retrieval of patient information is tiresome and sometimes is lost. There is also the big problem of human errors when recording the information manually.
The primary reason for doing this project was to solve the problems experienced not only in health centers but also to the patients such as to bridge the gap between the caregivers and patients, inaccessibility by patients to the health facility due to environmental constraints or else the cost of travel too.
1.5 Scope.
The proposed system/application can be used in any health care institution starting from a hospital, clinic, dispensary where patient records and other information concerning the patient are taken and stored for future reference.
CHAPTER TWO.
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW.
2.1 Introduction.
The huge growth of information in the medical environment deemed the necessity of an information system. The development of various ap...