Question

A new start-up, DTUI Inc., is designing a system for hospitals that will allow receptionists to check in people at the hospital faster. They wish to develop an interface that meets both the receptionist and patient's needs. Describe in detail a design methodology of 4-8 stages to facilitate proper design of such a system. Be sure to include early stage data gathering, design processes, user testing, and final stage issues. Write your answer in the form of a management plan for this project. For each stage, indicate the number of weeks that should be allocated.

Answer 1

To design system for hospitals that will allow receptionists to check in people at the hospital faster

Firstly, we have to do Requirement Gathering and analysis − All possible requirements of the patient and the information needed by the receptionist including patient identity ,symptoms , age, sex ,with which doctor he wants to consult ,Inpatient and Outpatient Registration,Medical Alerts Details,Appointment Scheduling,Doctors Daily Schedule List,Patient Visit History and other details are captured in this phase and documented in a requirement specification document.(2-3 weeks)

After requirment analysis we can move on System Design − The requirement specifications of patient and receptionist from previous phase are studied in this phase and the system design is prepared. This helps in specifying hardware and system requirements and helps in defining the overall system architecture(1 week)

Then in Implementaion phase we basically process in modules where we make seprate modules of Patient Registration Details,Inpatient and Outpatient Registration,Medical Alerts Details,Appointment Scheduling (Patient/Doctor wise),Doctor's Schedule Summary,Doctors Daily Schedule List,Patient Visit History,Medical Record Movements,Appointments for tests and Operation, Patient Visit Slip etc (2 week)

Then we move toIntegration and Testing − All the modules of different requrment of hospital and patient developed in the implementation phase are integrated into a system after testing of each unit. (1 week)

Deployment of system −When the complete testing of all the unit modules and integrated system is done we again test the complete system in system testing and when it is as per as requrment the software is deployed in the hospital environment.(1 week)

Maintenance − when there are some issues which come up in the hospital environment. To fix those issues, patches are released. Also to enhance the software functionality some better versions are released.