DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE OUTPATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A CASE STUDY OF SOKOTO SPECIALIST HOSPITAL

CHAPTER 5- SUMMARY, LIMITATION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.0 INTRODUCTION

This chapter describes discuss the objectives of the system stipulated in earlier chapter, limitation of the system conclusion and recommendation of the system

5.1 SUMMARY

As discussed in the previous chapters the main problem that we addressed was dealing with patient medical document. It is the above situation that drove us to techniques of developing this Outpatient Management System to be used at Sokoto state specialist hospital to enable them to handle details on policies efficiently and effectively. The project has implemented Most of the objectives stipulated in earlier chapter. The Outpatient management system offers a number of benefits to the user and can capture data, store, view, add and delete the records entered the data can also be posted information to the database.

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED DURING DATA COLLECTION: sensitive information released to us, few projects and books written about patient records management system. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED DURING SYSTEM DESIGN: Limited time to finish up the work, limited numbers of computers with the internet in the faculty hence it becomes difficult down load PHP codes from the internet and In adequate financial support to facilitate the project.

5.2 LIMITATIONS This section describes those services that are not provided by the system and those include the following. It does not auto generate alarm to alert the pharmacist manager of the expiring date of drugs at a given period of time. Reason that we use MySql program to develop the system which cannot support the triggers which can only be found in Oracle program.

5.3 CONCLUSIONS The core reason for the establishment of computerizing patient records management system is to enable the hospital administrators in a convenient, fair and timely manner. Therefore the IT used should support the core objective of the system if it is to remain relevant to the hospital. A lot still needs to be done in the IT department in order to make available technology effective. This may involve training of the staffs on how to enter data in the right and relevant data in the system and the management to keep updating the hardware and software requirements of the system. IT and computer systems need to be kept being upgraded as more and more IT facilities software are introduced into days IT market. The researcher acknowledges the fact this system does not handle all staffs the hospital like the security and asset section. The researcher therefore suggests that for further research, the following can be researched on. The most cost effective way of handling all staffs and interlinking Sokoto state specialist hospital.

5.4 RECOMMENDATIONS Training of all the members of the staff in the hospital to get accustomed to the system will be a priority. This being a new system, some members of the staffs management will get threatened that the computerized patient records management system will replace their jobs .I would recommend that management of the hospital educates the staff of how this system will operate and how it will supplement their efforts .For the efficiency of the hospital, users of the system need to be thoroughly educated about the use of the

passwords and staff name, not only that but also not to be careless of them. They should be kept confidential. Access to the server room should be physically guarded against unauthorized person; the server room should be dust free and should be fully protected and should have an air conditioner of 1100BTU to prevent the server from overheating. Backup media like CDs, Diskettes and Flush disks can be used for backups and storage of data.