Design And Implementation Of Medical Prescription System

ABSTRACT

Pharmacists and medical doctors are responsibility of dispensing medication to various individuals. While various individuals choose voluntarily to bypass the need for professional medical advice in the area of drug prescription by engaging in self-medication, either as a result of lack of funds or ignorance of what should be done, quality pharmaceutical services could mean the difference between life and death. Problems such as handwriting misinterpretation, cost incurred from frequent calls from pharmacists to physicians, data inconsistency and long waiting lines exist in traditional, manual pharmacy management methods. The main aim of this study is to design a prescription handling with the view of developing an electronic version. The solution was implemented using the Java programming language due to its platform independence and object-oriented nature. The proposed system addresses the aforementioned problems.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1      background of the project

• problem statement
• aim and objectives of the project
• significance of the project
• scope of the project
• limitation of the study

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1     Electronic drug prescription

2.2      E-prescription systems: A brief review of benefits and disadvantages

2.3     E-prescriptions with CDSS

2.4     E-prescriptions and CPOE

2.5     E-prescriptions as a stand-alone function

2.6    Related Work

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY

• System Design

CHAPTER FOUR

• System Implementation
• discussion

CHAPTER FIVE

• CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

CHAPTER ONE

1.0                            INTRODUCTION

1.1                     Background of the Study

As a result of the growing interest in patient safety by the health care industry, the automation of pharmacy management services cannot be ignored. A clinical pharmacy is one that is mostly found within the hospital and is usually concerned with providing medications for patients visiting the hospital [Saghaeiannejad-Isfahani et al, 2015]. The clinical pharmacy and the associated hospital jointly form an integrated hospital-pharmacy system [Khelifi et al, 2015]. Within the conventional model of corporate organizations, pharmacists managed all of the business dealings like small-scale independent entrepreneurs. The pharmacists operated with few employees usually managing the administrative aspects by themselves which includes the ordering and sale of pharmaceutical goods as well as inventory management. In some of the cases, there were cash points joined to these systems or the purchases were supported by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), but in majority of the pharmacies, information technology consisted mainly of standard, stand-alone applications for the processing of data, archiving and transaction [Sinclair et al, 2015].

The purpose of an integrated hospital-pharmacy system is to ensure that quality healthcare services are given to the patients while ensuring that the whole organization operates under a unified structure. Hospital-Pharmacy Management System (HPMS) is a system used by hospitals and their associated pharmacies to improve both the working environment of the pharmacists and to ensure their patients’ satisfaction by synchronizing the databases of a hospital and a pharmacy together for a better flow of work. It is expedient that every hospital pharmacy develops a clinical information management strategy. The existing systems should be examined to determine which functions are not relevant anymore and which could be enhanced without the software needing major modifications. Such enhancements might include regular entry of drug allergy information so that all orders can be screened and the use of networks and interfaces to provide medication profiles to hospital personnel [Sinclair et al, 2011].

The goal of this paper is to design automated drug prescription systems.

1.2                              Problem statement

Drug safety is an important livelihood issue of concern to countries all over the world. According to the data of WHO [1993], one in seven hospitalized patients worldwide each year is due to prescription safety issues. Hospitalizations for drug reactions account for nearly 30% of all hospitalizations in the United States, with approximately 6% of their deaths [Kesselheim et al, 2015 ]. At least one out of every eight hospitalized patients in the UK is caused by the wrong medication or problems with the medication itself (Vries et al, 2018) Approximately 5% of hospital ad- missions in developing countries are due to adverse drug reactions, and another 10–20% of hospitalized patients had adverse drug reactions (Haag et al, 2017).The phenomenon of irrational drug use in Nigeria also cannot be ignored. With the continuous improvement of the level of medicine, the variety and quantity of clinical drugs are increasing, and the probability of drug combination is rapidly increasing. Drug- induced diseases are serious due to the neglect of the rational use and interaction of drugs . This system was designed to resolve the current irrational use of drugs in our hospitals.

1.3                 Aim And Objective Of The Study

The main aim of this study is to design and implement a prescription drug monitoring program for patent medicines. The objectives are:

1. To build a model that automatically used for drug prescription
2. To promote drug safety and maintain health

• To ensure the safety of patients’ medication

1.4                       Significance Of The Study

This system has become a means of resolving the current irrational use of drugs. Through the development of a safe drug monitoring program, this system  will serve as  an effective method for modern clinical and pharmaceutical information services [Su, 2018]. This not only helps clinical professionals obtain pharmaceutical information but also simulates the prescription review process and automatically monitors the prescription. This can effectively prevent the occurrence of adverse drug events and promote safe medication use.

1.5                              Scope of the Study

The scope of this work covers the design of a medical prescription system using Java programming language

1.6                          Limitation of the study

This study can be implemented using different program but for this particular work it was implemented using Java programming language.