Dental practice patient management system
Abstract
Most privately run Dental Clinics serve patients of Dental Cases.
They employ two to three attendants and a receptionist. These with
the doctor manage all the affairs of the clinic. This include
Booking Appointments for patients
Receiving patients and take their detail.
Capturing past medical history of patients
Diagnosing the patient.
Drawing up a treatment plan for the patient
Treating the patient
Invoicing and receiving payments
Rebooking the patients for another appointment.
Sending six monthly reminders to patient for a checkup.
Sending reminders for Balances to patients with outstanding
balances.
Ordering dental materials from suppliers for use in the clinic.
Sending laboratory work to dental technicians.
Sending Patients for x-rays.
Sending patients for laboratory tests.
Most clinics have no computerized system for the above tasks, all the
processes are carried out manually.
This project looks at computerizing some of the manual operation
above and incorporates the modern Internet technology to enable
patients book appointments on line and even enable for the system to
capture patients' information online to save both time and resources.
Publisher
School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi
Subject
Patient Management SystemDescription
MSc