WEB-BASED HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM A CASE STUDY OF IBRAHIM BADAMASI BABANGIDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE CENTRE, LAPAI, NIGER STATE

Abstract

Hospitals are the essential part of our lives, providing best medical facilities to people suffering from various ailments, which may be due to change in climatic conditions, increased work-load, emotional trauma stress. It is necessary for the hospitals to keep track of its daily activities and records of its patients, doctors, nurses, and other staff personals that keep the hospital running
smoothly and successfully. But keeping track of all the activities and their records on paper is very tedious and prone to error. Also, it is very inefficient and a time-consuming process Observing the continuous increase in population and number of people visiting the hospital. Recording and maintaining all these records is highly unreliable, inefficient and prone to error. It has also been observed that patient records tend to be duplicated and sometimes unavailable at critical time when it is required for emergencies. It is also not economically and technically feasible to maintain these records on paper, this paper proposed the use of Web-based Hospital Management Information System in automation of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai Health care Centre.