Big hospitals usually have huge number of staff member and doctors. Managing the time, schedule and proper regularity of tasks becomes very difficult. In order to have efficient and effective system of doctor-patient interactions, a doctor patient handling and managing system is designed that not only assists the doctors in their work but also helps patients in numerous ways like booking doctor appointments and assessing medical reports and progress of treatment. The portal permits the doctors to maintain their empty slots for bookings by the patients using an online system. Patients are requires to look for the empty slots of doctors using the same online system, and reserve the slots using the required information. The system maintains records of all the doctors and manages the appointment data of all the doctors for different times and dates. When a patient visits a doctor his/ her date and time of visit is entered by the doctor in the database. Also the doctor stores his/ her medical progress or reports in the system. In this way the next time if a patient logs into his/ her account he can see his/ her complete medical records from the beginning till the end whenever he needs it. Similarly when a patient visits a doctor, the doctor can view his medical records of the patients to have better knowledge of his disease. The doctor can visit a patients history even before the patient visits him. This automated portal for doctor patient management system requires an online interface. Some online system also contains sections where patients put their requests for donations for money, blood and organs. The module gives a registration platform for the donors as well as the seekers which can help urgent organ requirements and blood requirements simply by searching in the appropriate fields.
The various key features of such a system are:
User login and registration: the patients have to get themselves register if not registered before and also can search for the doctor they need appointment with.
Doctor Login and search: the doctor logins in to check the appointments allotted and can search a patient history.
Admin Login: the system administrator can login and access all the accounts for updates.
Donation Centre: a platform for those who want to donate or seek help.
Appointment availability: patients can check for the availability of slots.
Appointment booking: the time and date can be checked and updated as per requirement by the patients.
Other features may include appointment booking via an email, booking cancellation and feedback corner.
The advantages of having such system are numerous. The patient will not have to wait in queue for hours to get the appointment. The appointments are simply made through the portal. Time management is very easy for both the doctors and patients. Medical history of the patient can be easily viewed. Patients can get the donations easily through donation centre.
Besides these advantages there are few disadvantages. The database for such systems is very large and such systems require internet connection for working.