Patient Record Management System

CHAPTER I The Problem and Its Setting This chapter presents the background of the study, the statement of the problem, the assumptions made in accordance with the design of the go out, the scope and delimitation, the signifi tailce of the study, the enquiry design and systemology, and the definition of terms used in the study. Background of the regard There set about been major progresses in the Information Technology for the prehistoric twenty (20) years especially in the field of medication.The vast subjoin of technology is the evident in hospitals in some other countries as they pass developed and implement different forms of Patient enrol focal point dodge making practitioners and health professionals work easier than the manual management of gathering unhurrieds record that the hospitals had before. In Philippines, only a some hospitals (Saint Lukes health check Center, Makati checkup City and Asian Hospital and Medical Center) overhear implemented a fully Electronic Medical Record which includes all yard bird and outpatient health shargon tuition.The goal of the hospital is to sh ar information with all the bailiwick hospitals and public health c be facilities and at present they can share information with one branch of the hospital. Some hospitals still use the manual method which is time and energy consuming but why it is that only few hospitals in the Philippines, being a newly industrialized country may have a factor on why implementing a PRMS is im viable. The possible reasons could be insufficient funds, pretermit of technical expertise and computer skills and the lack of data processing facilities.In addition, the resistance of medical checkup practitioners and health professionals generally to metamorphose from manual to electronic documentation may be a problem. most health administrators and information managers are used to the old system and have this fear that it may take time to smorgasbord or at least modify s ome behaviour and attitudes. The reason for wanting to change to an electronic system is important. Most health administrators and information managers expect to ingrain from a paper to paperless environment. This is a major step to help health institutions and the environment at the same time.By having an electronic system, practitioners could improve the accuracy and whole tone of data recorded in a health record, enhance practitioners attack to a patients record, enabling it to be shared at present and also for the future use, it could also improve the spirit of care because of health information that a patient need can be immediately for sale all the time. At present, people rely on the information from what is electronically made since it can easily be viewed. In the modern world, converse is vital within our lifestyle.With the advent of information and communication provided within a medical institution, practitioners together with their patients within the vicinity of B aguio may use the information easily to increase good organization. Patient Record Management System may provide both useful information with the Doctor and Patient alike, providing and improving easy Doctor-Patient communication. In the advancement of technology, electronic medical records are now growing more than popularity today. As utter in the definition on wikipedia. rg about Electronic Medical Records, these are a computerized medical record that is created in an organization that can rejoin care such as hospital or physicians office. Electronic medical records are intended to be a disclose of a local stand-alone health information system that include storage, retrieval and modification of records (retrieved from Wikipedia. com, November 2011. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Electronic_health_record. Article form http//www. providersedge. com/ehdocs/ehr _articles/Electronic_Patient_Records-EMRs_and_EHRs. pdf).These are medical records of patients that are encoded into the com puter system of an organization for the information dissemination of medical practitioners in a particular organization such as hospitals, clinics and the like. In the international scenario, in an article by Steenhuysen J. (March 2009), the United States has less than 2 portion of U. S. hospitals that have completely accepted a fully functional electronic medical records. With U. S. President Barrack Obama has made electronic medical records a central piece of his plan to cut costs out of U.S. healthcare system that consistently ranks lower in quality measures than other large countries. The U. S. President also allotted $19 billion to push into the increase the use of information technology in healthcare. The numbers of without electronic medical records are relatively high compared to those organizations that have choose Electronic Medical Records. Starfield, B. (1991) postulates that Primary Care in the United States is critical to the provision of swelled excellent medical care.From the research in the year 1996, the Institute of Medicine report defined pristine care as the provision of integrated, getatable health care services by clinicians accountable for addressing most ain health care needs, development a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. These makes more people to receive primary care than in other clinics. These clinics have adopted the innovations of information technology giving more value to the primary care in other clinics.These clinics have adopted the innovations on information technology giving more value to the primary care of their patients. Thus obviously electronic medical records in the clinic are to be present for the ease of accessibility, storage, retrieval and modification of medical records. However, in a smaller scale of health care system. Where Everyone, being succeptible to unsoundness needs to prioritize on prevention in odres to additional expenses on healt h care. This visiting the doctors clinic today is the most effecient and inexpensivr way to prevent diseases. oblation various diagnosis, vaccinations and maintenance drugs.With todays population, more patients visit the doctors clinic and health records management poses as the most time consuming activity. As keeping numerous pages on file cases and searching this file cases one by one when a patient arrives eats most of the time that could have spent treating another(prenominal) patient. With all of the mentioned cases which inpact the number of patients diagnosed per day. The researchers agreed to conduct a study for Dr. Nelia Bacays clinic at SLU hospital of the Sacred Heart, annex. The researchers will try to find ship canal and practices to lighten up workload and play down time consumed by evolution a system.Statement of the Problem The main objective of the study is to design a Patient Record Management System for Dr. Nelia Bacay in which seeks to answer the pursual ques tions 1. What processes are involved within the practitioners medical records of their patients? 2. What difficulties are encountered regarding the processes involved with the medical records? 3. What features regarding the medical records should be incorporated with the proposed Patient Record Management for Dr. Renato Manalo to their topical system? Objective of the StudyThe main objective of the study is to design a Patient Records Management System for Dr. Nelia Bacay that shall lighten up workload and minimize time consumed on operation. The researchers intend to achieve the following 1. To identify the true standard operating procedure in diagnosing patients. 2. To enumerate and talk about the most tiny consuming fact in the process. 3. To design a Patient Record Management that facilitates a quick and easy way to access and view patients profile. Significance of the Study This study is important in terms of advantages or benefits that would be gained by the following entit iesTo the Practitioners The Practitioners will have the main importance of the study because of its increased number of patients and services rendered. to a greater extent patients are inclined to avail of medical services. This also makes the communication mingled with co-doctors of the same field. To the patients The best advantage of having a Patient Record Management System is for them to have an ease to research about the Doctors profile and their accessibility through the use of PRMS. Just by a series of clicks and change out necessary information, an appointment can be made.To the Researchers The development of a PRMS makes the researchers to be more aware and knowledgeable of the future trend in information and technology specifically on Medical Informatics. Furthermore, by developing a system, programming skills of the researchers are improved. To future researchers This study can be a reference and guide to other researchers who aim to develop a Patient Record Management System in the future that can be applied to other fields of interest such as hotels, restaurants, shops and alsp other fields of medical profession. Scope and Delimitation of the StudyIn improving the quality of services in an organization or establishment, we make look into other options such as hiring new personnel to increase work capacity, or procuring equipmentto lessen work and human error, or to create a more stable and rock-steady system may it be manual or computer lie. In solving this matter, we could consider in the combination of the available options within our grasp. To further optimize the production in our establishment, the company could comply the options of having new equipment and creating a new system or updating the active one.In putting these two options together, it will provide a more stable, reliable and efficient system to be used in daily transactions. Our render aims to proceed in updating the pre-existing system in the establishment. changing the format from a manual type to a computer oriented information system. Reconfiguring the old system aims that customers and employees have a more convenient. With the project be finished, the company will have a smoother menstruum of work, lessened human error, improved time in finishing indisputable processes and as a total, a very significant increase in productivity and creating a reliable Patient Record System.