Automated Hospital Billing and Recordkeeping System for Effective Healthcare Delivery.

The paper designs and implements a fully customized and branded hospital billing and recordkeeping system. It is aimed at simplifying the medical billing process and minimizing the daily hassles encountered by hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The system captures patients' information such as demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal status like age and weight, and billing information electronically and stores them in a relational database for easy access, retrieval and processing. Structured system analysis and design methodology (SSADM) uses objects throughout the software development process. The programming languages and development tools used are HTML and CSS for interface design, MYSQL for database design, and PHP for server-side scripting that facilitates communication between the interface and the database. The expected result is an integrated patient billing and recordkeeping system that will keep track of all the transactions of patients with the hospital and associate all health information with specific patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]