Software Program for Patient History

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The medical field has some of the latest technology incorporated in it. It is necessary to always have efficient tools at the disposal of the health care staff. Being efficient and fast allows them not only help patients better but also save money in the long run. We want to create a software program for the Hospitals that will allow the staff to keep track of all patients, which also allows them to access any background information on the individuals. We feel that this will make it much easier for hospitals to help patients even if they have never visited that facility before they will still have all the history of the patient; for example they can pull records from other facilities also using the same system to keep records. Not only will our software help the business keep track of their patients’ medical history but it will ultimately allow them to do a lot more with it.
To start this project we will need a lot of equipment, for us to just show that this is possible almost every room in the hospital will need to have a workstation. A workstation will include a PC; that is composed of a Video card (or APU), CPU, Ram, Motherboard, and Power supply, Hard Disk Drive, and a CD Drive. All these components are necessary for our machine to run. They will be typical desktop, but with parts that meet certain criteria. It can’t be too expensive to cheap, long as they are affordable for most facilities. We will allow customers to choose between an APU and CPU; this will depend on their personal preference. Some may prefer a video card while other may just go for the integrated solution. For RAM we are going to require a 4 gigabyte minimum, this is due to the increased performance that will be provided from it. For our Motherboard we deci...

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...ve. In the future we plan on allowing the hospital to retrieve records from a webpage database in the future for when they are not connected to our workstations.
As far as applications go a lot of them will come standard as part of the 2012 Windows Server OS from a calculator to the web browser. Our specific application on the other hang will allow the staff to retrieve information on the patient based on name, social, or address. The search feature can be expanded to include other categories but these will be our defaults. Through this they can pull up all medical history of the patient including past visits, medical conditions, family connections, gender, current room, condition, and almost anything that will make it easy to care for this person. Our goal is to save the hospital time and money so this will allow for fewer errors to be made in the patients care.

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