Health Management System for Tropical Diseases in Nigeria

This project is a Health Management System for Tropical Diseases in Nigeria. It is aimed at developing a health management system that collects information on tropical diseases in Nigeria. The system is designed in such a way that information is generated from each patient that visits the hospital electronically over time. The system is also capable of querying the data base for some selected tropical diseases that are mostly common from health records of each states of the country. It adheres strictly to information privacy policies with respect to patient information. The major objectives of this research is to use the information generated for medical research, planning for preventive and curative care, assist donor agencies to plan medical aid for the country and it can also be used for planning national health budget. The Health Management System is a web application developed using PHP, CSS and MYSQL as database. Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM) were used to analyze the system and Unified modeling language (UML) is used to model the software. After a successful testing and implementation of the system with patient’s data generated from five health facilities, the result of the test meet the objective of this study. The system will useful for keeping patient health record, diagnosis, prescription and to view tropical diseases online for research purposes.