Portfolio on Web-Based Medical Record Identification system for Nigerian public Hospitals

Patient record management is an important aspect of healthcare delivery in hospitals. It involves the creation, maintenance, and retrieval of patient records, which contain vital information about a patient's medical history, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. Effective patient record management ensures that healthcare professionals have access to the right information at the right time, which is critical for making informed decisions about patient care. In Nigerian public hospitals, identifying patients’ records poses a challenge as there is no automated method of record management. Files are being carried from one table to another during treatments, thereby causing delays in attending to patients, which sometimes leads to worst conditions as death. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study targeting this problem of public hospitals or any that addressed this problem hitherto. To cover this gap, we designed a web-based medical record identification system for Nigerian public hospitals. Much novelty of the system lies on empowering patients with a prompt of their access codes when they are registered with the system. Qualitative approach and agile methodology were adopted for this study. A user study was done to confirm the functionality of the system and feedback concerns were handled appropriately. While this work contributes to the scientific body of IT knowledge and highlights the steps of preparing portfolio of evidence in computing, it addresses the record management issues in Nigerian public health system.