Fast-tracking Healthcare Services for Students through the Design of a Hospital Information System

Abstract

Students with good health status tend to attain better educational performance with low risk of academic failure unlike students with health issues. The discrepancies in the loss of instructional hours due to unplanned and delayed medical care widens the gap in academic performance between healthy and unhealthy students. Systems with the potential of providing excellent information access to relevant health personnel and eliminating absenteeism and lateness to duty which are paramount to timely healthcare delivery have now become a necessity. The urgent need for such a system, flexibility in the development process and the potential for adding or modifying later requirement specifications influenced the selection of the Rapid Application Development (RAD) Software Development Model for this study. This project designed and implemented a system that offers prompt healthcare delivery to narrow the gap between healthy and unhealthy students.