Abstract

The appropriate use of state of the art technologies for health care service provision is of a great use and importance, not only for enhancing the patient’s health care but also for facilitating, automating and streamlining patient’s identification processes and record managements in the hospitals. According to the World Health Organization, hospitals nowadays are experiencing problems towards collecting, monitoring and management of health care data due to the fragmented structures and lack of regulation. In this study, the functioning and limitations of an existing healthcare software system were analysed with the development of an improved system to address the limitations. The study introduced the adaptation of both Electronic Medical Record System and Health Monitoring System, with the use of prototyping software development methodology; a justification for the chosen methodology is discussed. Among the critical elements of the health care systems analysed in this study includes schedule management, records management, patient care management and monitoring patient’s medication with a detailed description of each phase of the prototyping development methodology.