Urged for tighter restrictions on cosmetic surgery

A summary of responses from patients, the public and industry has been published as part of the review set up after the PIP breast implant scandal. A final report, by Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director leading the English review, is due in March 2013. Cosmetic surgeons said procedures should not be sold as "a commodity". For more information...

Is The Traditional PC Dead?

Personal Computer makers late to the mobile game were the big losers in 2012, as CNN's Maggie Lake reports. Here is the link from CNN http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c4#/video/business/2012/12/26/pkg-lake-is-the-pc-dead.cnn  ...

Increasing Time Spent With Patients And Improving Relationships : A Better Bedside Manner With iPad

Bedside care is a vital part of health care professionals' relationships with their patients at the hospital. But the staff at hospital found that modern technology sometimes made those interactions more difficult. When Apple introduced iPad, physicians at the hospital knew they'd...

Drug And Medical Information Apps For iDevices

This article describes Apps for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad that may be beneficial to pharmacy education and pharmacy practice. The purpose is to provide examples of the types of Apps available through the App Store to support teaching, learning, and practice and to help you...

The iPad’s Pros And Cons In A Health Care Setting

The iPad has been popular with health care providers. This is not too surprising, as doctors, nurses and other practitioners have been using the iPad's older sibling, the iPhone, for several years, for everything from voice recording to clinical data entry. Many argue that the iPad's larger screen sets the stage for even more clinical uses. The...

Architecture of Android OS

Android uses Linux for its memory management, process management, networking, and other operating system services. The Android phone user will never see Linux or in other words our application will not make Linux calls directly. Some parts of Android will be familiar, such...

Android Devices in the Market

Android devices come in all shapes and sizes. The Android OS can be seen powering the following types of devices: Smartphones Tablets E-reader devices Netbooks MP4 players Internet TVs Chances are good that you own at least one of the preceding devices. The Samsung Galaxy...

What is Android?

Android is a free phone operating system that aims to get all kinds of phones running like computers and, most importantly, connecting to the web. It's been developed primarily by Google, though others have helped, and it's a project that's constantly updating, growing, and...

HIS : Splitting A Large and Complex System Into Simpler Sub-systems

In the development of the hospital information system would be better if done through a modularization into several sub-systems. For example, in this paper we split into the following subsystems: - Personlia - Registration of patients coming - Outpatient and / or ER - Radiology and Laboratory Examination - Inpatient - Pharmacy - Cashier Modularization...

Calculation of Inventory Through The Trigger Mechanism on The Transaction Table

This time we will discuss about the computerization of inventory in the warehouse (location) is done automatically at the time the transaction is entered into a purchase transaction table, into the sales transaction table, as well as mutations in the transaction table movement of goods between warehouses (locations). The assumption of this discussion...

Database Object Naming Standards

A naming standard is a collection of rules, which, when applied to data, results in a set of data objects named in a logical and standardized way. These names convey some information about the named objects; an element name, for example, indicates the set of possible valid values (its data domain), and its usage. Having naming standards helps to achieve...

Pharmacology Clinical Decision Support System Software

Information technology has made a significant impact on the healthcare sector. The past decade has witnessed the foray of numerous information systems and their resultant products into the hospital scenario. The number of investments in computers and types of hospital systems has increased. This is because paper medical records are cumbersome,...

Development of Computerized Nursing Process Documentation System Using NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages

The nursing care plan was developed by linking the nursing diagnosis, desired nursing outcome and suggested nursing intervention based on NANDA, NOC, and NIC linkage. The fetched sentences linked with each nursing activity supports nursing documentation. The data model uses the NNN classifications to map a possible form of the nursing process in...

Sample Preparation of The Hospital Database Schema

In general, the flow of services in a hospital is like this, first a patient comes in to register for the examination of physicians in ambulatory care or emergency services. Patients who had taken care of at the hospital will certainly use the medical record number previously used by the patient, while the patient who first came to the hospital services...

Entities And Types of Entity in The E-R Approach

The first step in the E-R approach is to select the entities that will be used to model the enterprise. An entity is quite similar to an object, except that an entity does not have methods. It might be a concrete object in the real world, such as Nurse Paula, the Pajero Sport parked...

THE E-R APPROACH FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING

The E-R approach is not a relative, a derivative, or a generalization of the relational data model, it is not a data model at all but a design methodology, which can be applied (but is not limited) to the relational model. Main components of the E-R approach are the concepts of entity and relationship. Entities model the objects that are involved...

Create User Interface or Application for HIS - First step : Connecting to DBMS

In this article we talk about application software that used by user to access to the hospital information system. For practical purpose, we require Delphi 7, MySQL for Windows, and ODBC Driver for MySQL. Some example of how to connect to and query an MySQL database using Delphi 7 : You could use ZeosLib freeware components in http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeoslib/ MySQL...

MySQL Routine (Stored Procedure) To Insert a User Into tUser Table

We assume that you have read about personnel sub system in the hospital information system that presented before at http://databasescript.blogspot.com/2012/10/entity-relationship-model-of-hospital.htmlIn this article will take up about inserting a user id, password and other fields that related to tUser table in personnel sub system. This procedure...

Entity Relationship Model of a Hospital-Based Database System

In the ER diagram of a Hospital-Based Database System, we can view the entities are Patient, Doctor, Receptionist, Department, Medicine, Test, etc. Among these entities, relationships exist which connect all the entities in the diagram. For example, Patient, Doctor and Receptionist are connected via the relationship Appointment. In other words, a...

Techniques of Data Mining in Healthcare or Hospital System

Health care nowadays collects data in gigabytes per hour volume. Data mining can help with data reduction, exploration, and hypothesis formulation to find new patterns and information in health care data that surpass human information processing limitations. There is a spread of reports and articles that apply data mining to a wide variety of health...

MySQL Workbench for working with MySQL Servers

MySQL Workbench provides a graphical tool for working with MySQL Servers and databases. It fully supports MySQL Server versions 5.1 and above. It is also compatible with MySQL Server 5.0, but not every feature of 5.0 may be supported. It does not support MySQL Server versions 4.x. MySQL Workbench provides three main areas of functionality: SQL...

Advantages Of An ODBMS

Advantages Of An ODBMS We can list some of the advantages that we have found in using an ODBMS environment for a website. Simplicity We have no doubt that the simplicity of using an ODBMS contributes significantly to our ability to rapidly develop and deploy new functionality and bug fixes. It is extremely straightforward to create and persist Abstract...

Implementation of The Secure Hospital Database

The hospital database should be implemented on a relational DBMS that are protected from user access both by the permissions on directories containing the database files and the permissions on the database files themselves. Users cannot look at the files in the database except through DBMS and its protection scheme; that is users cannot access the...

Implementation of Secure Database On a Hospital

A hospital, with health care information systems is one case of a security critical environment. It is one of the few environments, in which a confidentiality breach, wrong information or even a relatively minor loss of access to information may be life-threatening. Security is therefore an important issue which encompasses all aspects of the organization,...

Data Mining Process in Hospital Information System

Data mining aims at discovering novel, interesting and useful knowledge from databases. Conventionally, the data is analyzed manually. Many hidden and potentially useful relationships may not be recognized by the analyst. Many organizations including modern hospitals are capable of generating and collecting a huge amount of data. Data stored in medical...

The Complex Database Schema of Hospital Information System

At a hospital we find daily activity correspond to medical treatment and other health care business. For example some patients come to internist get some medicine or just routine health check up, some physician get busy treating emergency patient at emergency room, at another place the patient's family go to cashier for paying the bill, etc. It is...