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ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- A significant part of the operation of any This has changed the workload of health professionals,
hospital involves the acquisition, management, and timely allowing them to spend little time on the processing of patient
retrieval of great volumes of information which usually information.
involves patient medical records and medical history, staff
information and schedules, rooms, operation theater and Management Information System (MIS) is typically a
ward scheduling, etc. The management of all of this computer-based system which is used within an organization
information must be done in an efficient and cost-wise to improve its operations. It has been defined as the process
fashion so that the organizational resources are efficiently comprising all the components that collect, process and
utilized. Unfortunately, most of the hospitals are still disseminate data or information. Such components include
adopting the traditional way of manually keeping and hardware, software, users, communication systems such as
recording data which is very hectic and takes up a lot of telephone lines and the data itself. The technical functions and
time and space. This results in a bad health care service activities performed include entering data into the system,
and inefficient patient personal information management. converting data into information, storing information and then
Having a good Hospital Management System (HMS) producing relevant reports. Those predetermined objectives
provides various advantages such as exchanging health are accomplished by humans and other resources (Longest et
information electronically which then results in a high al., 2000).
quality and safer care for patients and creates highly
tangible managerial enhancements to the hospital. Every The introduction of computerized management
industry is now automating their functions; hospitals are information systems has changed the working practices in
also now adopting HMS to ease up their works. Gitwe hospitals as patient information is stored on servers which is
Hospital Management System (GHMS) was designed for then retrieved and accessed by client computers. This is
the Gitwe hospital to replace its existing manual record- usually reliable, secure, faster, and more accurate than
keeping system. The new system controls the following performing these tasks manually. Therefore, computerized
systems are money-saving and reduce the workload of
information; patient information, room availability, staff
and operating room schedules, patient invoices, etc. These administrative and clerical staff. The provision of enhanced
services are provided in an efficient and cost-effective quality of health care and security of patient information are
manner with the goal of reducing the time and resources the common goals of all primary and secondary healthcare
currently required for such tasks. GHMS is an HMIS with providers, so, various models and schemes for hospital
great user interface designs, more performance interventions and development have been deployed (Friesner
enhancements, and a number of enriched modules. It et al., 2009).
works for a big deal to bring value to the words ‘care’ and This research work is on the design and construction of a
‘comfort’ in this hospital scenario. In addition, GHMS is Hospital Management System, GHMS (Gitwe Hospital
endowed with an advanced feature of retrieving online Management System). The software is very advantageous in
WHO’s ICD codes to properly note diseases on health this hospital as it improves the hospital administration by
records, to track epidemiological trends and to assist in providing a superior patient care, streamline operations, strict
medical reimbursement decision. cost-effectiveness and improved profitability.
Keywords:- HMS (Hospital Management System); Java; The system uses JAVA as the front-end software which
MySQL Server; Windows Server. is an object-oriented programming language and has
I. INTRODUCTION connectivity with the back-end software i.e MySQL. The
patient data and other hospital information are kept in a central
Previously when computerized Hospital Management database server, and after proper authentication, individual
System was not into practice, operations in the hospital such workstations in different departments of the hospital access
as rigorous recording of daily activities, patient-related data from the main server. GHMS has been fully
information, and proper maintenance of the hospital implemented, currently running in Gitwe hospital, and it is
equipment, funds allocation and usage were very difficult to surely providing better and in-time health care services to
manage. patients.
Computers and data processing have improved the The remaining part of this paper is organized as follows:
accuracy and reliability of information pertinent to the patients Section II presents Related Work. A brief description of
besides the improvement of the services provided to those; Problem Definition is provided in Section III. In section IV,
administrative and technical tasks have been improved too. the Proposed System is presented. The Methodology is
Hardware Used
Development tools
GHMS is a web-based application with JAVA as the
front-end software and MySQL Server as the back-end tool. Fig 6:- Login interface
B. Operating System
Windows Server 2012 on a powerful server computer,
client computers use client programs namely Windows 10,
Windows 8 and Windows 7.
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