An Effective Health Information Management System for Optimal Healthcare Delivery

Abstract

The effect of security of health information on patients as well as the society at large cannot be overemphasized. If information gets to the wrong hands, it can lead to various disaster ranging from blackmail, financial loss, stigmatization, medio-legal issues and ultimately death. This research work addresses the problems associated with existing records management system in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ekiti State Nigeria (FETHI), which is manual based. At present, approach to file handling involves junior cadre staff moving files between departments and this is often subject to various degree of mishandling which could lead to loss of important documents, leakage of confidential information among others.The model proposed and implemented in this research addresses the issue of security and privacy in health information system and proffer advantages such as easy storage and retrieval, easy transfer of patients ‘records and it also guarantee confidentiality of information at all stages. The user-friendly web-based system was developed using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) as the front –end and MySQL as the backend.