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CASE STUDY: Hospital Management System

Hospital management system helps in registering information about patients and handles patient's query. A unique ID is generated for each patient after registration. This helps in implementing customer relationship management and also maintains medical history of patient. This system also monitors the doctor appointments, when the ID is generated the patient receives the appointment time and number from the receptionist and accordingly visit the doctor. This system also deals with testing appointments as and when ID is generated the patient receives the appointment time and number and accordingly undergoes the test.

It also deals with bed allotments to various patients by checking their ID. It also undergoes various operations by diagnosing the patients. The system identifies whether the person is a doctor or staff and handles various activities such as draw salary and give salary, also it adds doctor/staff information into database. This system is responsible for handling various other activities like deleting, editing doctor/staff information into the database. As per doctor diagnoses the patient, gives treatment and gives suggestions to patients and prescribe laboratory tests and medicines. This system also takes care of medical equipment, doctor visit, vitals recording, patient case sheet, diet ordering, blood requisition, transfer information and discharge information, maintenance of wards, inter and intrawards transfers also it generates patient's discharge summary which includes patients health at the time of discharge, medical history, various diagnosis and drug prescriptions, history of patients illness and course in hospital. Patient can pay bill through credit card, cash or cheque whose information is maintained by this system.

Hospital Management System is a large system including several subsystems or modules providing variety of functions. Hospital Reception subsystem or module supports some of the many job duties of hospital receptionist. Receptionist schedules patient's appointments and admission to the hospital, collects information from patient upon patient's arrival and/or by phone. For the patient that will stay in the hospital ("inpatient") she or he should have a bed allotted in a ward. Receptionists might also receive patient's payments, record them in a database and provide receipts, file insurance claims and medical reports.

An example of use case diagram for Hospital Reception.

Hospital Management Domain Model

Domain model for the Hospital Management System is represented by several class diagrams.

Hospital Organization Domain model - Patient, Hospital, Staff - Operations, Administrative, Technical.

Ward is a division of a hospital or a suite of rooms shared by patients who need a similar kind of care. In a hospital, there are a number of wards, each of which may be empty or have on it one or more patients. Each ward has a unique name. Diagram below shows it using {id} modifier for ward's name. Wards are differentiated by gender of its patients, i.e. male wards and female wards. A ward can only have patients of the gender admitted to it. Gender is shown as enumeration. Ward and patient have constraint on Gender. Every ward has a fixed capacity, which is the maximum number of patients that can be on it at one time (i.e. the capacity is the number of ...