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SIKKIM MANIPAL UNIVERSITY

SYNOPSIS ON

Physician Information Management System

(Find a Doctor in your Area)

Submitted By

NIRMAL GYANWALI
Batch: 2066/68 Regd. No.: Course: M.Sc(IT) 4 560929488
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Sem

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Title
Physician Information Management System - PIMS (Find a Doctor in your area)

2. Introduction
Physician Information Management System is aimed to provide a quick reference of information about physicians to the general public. It will give information about physicians, their professional qualifications, experiences, medical specialization, their availability and their location in clinics & hospitals etc. This directory will provide a common platform for all health professionals, clinics, hospitals and patients to communicate globally, which finally helps to fulfill the gap between physicians and patients. Physicians will get the opportunity to explore them in the field. They can enlist them in the directory and add their photo, personal physician statement, and link to their personal website on their physician Profile page. In the other side for the public, this PIMS will provide a general search options to find the doctor in their area.

3. Problem Definition
If we see from the general public or patients side, when they suffer from any disease or face any health problem, it has become the difficult part to find the related doctor or specialist in our unmanaged city. When we talk about the emergency condition, its been most difficult to find the doctor and health service provider near our location. In the other side, there are thousands of doctors in the market and they are qualified & specialized too but it might be they are not getting good platform or the required popularity of their proficiency. This online physician Information management System will help to fulfill the gap between physicians and patients by creating a common platform for them.

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Objectives
The Specific objectives of the PIMS:
1. To create a common platform for physicians and Patients

2. To make easy to explore physicians in the Health market

3. To make easy to find a doctor in different locations for public

5. Scope
Visiting a doctor is something everybody needs to do. We might not know the names of any local physicians if we are going to somewhere or we are new to that place. This online Physician Information Management System will provide a guideline to locate physicians by specialty and location. In the other side it creates a platform for all physicians from different therapeutic systems. This system will list out all health professionals and their working place and make their list available for general public. This system also makes a list of all hospitals & clinics, where these doctors are serving, so the visitors can get more information about the hospitals with the working physicians.
It will provide a general search, search by location & search by specialty to find the

doctor in their area.

6. Limitations
This Physician Information Management System is not intended as a tool for verifying the credentials, qualifications, or abilities of any physician contained therein. Its visitors responsibility to further investigate or communicate with any physician or contact through the Physician Directory. This Directory is not liable to public or to anyone for any decision made or action taken by you in the reliance on information provided in the PIMS.

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Methodology
8.1. Study of Existing System

Physician Information management system is widely used and popular system in United States. There are mainly three popular companies WebMD, Health grades & Appointment net which are working in the online physician information management system. They have listed more than 750,000 physicians online from US locations. But in context of Nepal, I couldnt find any online directory to list out Nepalese physicians. So, this system will be the first to list out Nepali physicians and their services.

8.2.

Data Collection

The Primary form of data collection is by visiting hospitals, polyclinics, clinics and by online physician registration form. The Secondary form of data collection is by collecting the list of Doctors and their information from Nepal Medical Council.

Data Authentication: There will two way of methods to authenticate online data:
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First try will be to do the collaboration with Nepal Medical Council; to validate physicians email address by doing cross-check.

If first plan is not succeeded, it will be manually validated by directly contacting to the Hospitals, clinics where they are working. After validating the email address, the system will automatically send account activation link to the physician. So, the physician can update their service center, time and location timely.

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Feasibility Study

It will be totally online web application based on JAVA programming. So, this system will be placed in a domain name with collaboration with health service providers or portals working in this region. In the later phase, the major source of data collections will be online registration form and the validation will be done in the based on the respective registered emails in Nepal medical Council registration. This will be a hub for patient and physician, so the system will work as an independent body after completion of the development. So, the operation cost will be minimal. To maintain that minimal cost we can do some feature listing of physicians, health care service providers, pharmaceuticals etc and do some minimal charges.

8.

System Planning
GANTT CHART:

Mar 2011

Apr 2011 20/ 3 27/3 3/4 10/4 17/4 24/ 4 1/ 5

May 2011 8/5 15/5 22/5

ID 1 2 3 4 5

Task Name Requirement Analysis Design or Architecture Development or Coding Testing and Documentation Implementation or Deployment

Start 3/1/2011 3/28/2011 4/20/2011 5/16/2011 5/27/2011

Finish 3/25/2011 4/19/2011 5/19/2011 5/27/2011 6/1/2011

Duration
27/2 6/3 13/3

19d 17d 22d 10d 4d

9. System Overview
Context Diagram:

Physici an

Registratio n

Update Informatio n

PIM S
Search by Speciality

Search by Location

Visito rs

10. System Environments

Hardware:
- Pentium 1 or above - RAM 128MB or above

Software:
- Windows Operating System - Java SDK or JRE - Apache TomCat - NetBeans IDE - SQL Manager - Web Browser

11. Testing Method

During the development or coding phase of the system, testing will be continued and system will be made error free as far as possible. For testing purpose, Unit Testing will be used. Unit testing refers to tests that verify the functionality of a specific section of code, usually at the function level. So each component/functionality will be tested and compared with desired output. 12. Modules Following modules will be available in the system. Physicians Profile Module Physicians Profile Add Information Modify Profile Activate/Deactivate Profile Basic Search Module Search by Location Search by Specialty

13. System

Development

Front-end:
Netbeans IDE will be used as front end development tool. JAVA (JSP & Servlet) will be used as programming language for the system.

Back-end:
MYSQL Server will be used as database backend for PIMS.

14. Conclusion So, this physician information management system will provide a common platform for all health professionals, clinics, hospitals and patients to communicate globally. It will fill the gap between health service seekers and health service providers, which will finally help to build the healthy and prosperous country.