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Pathology Centre Management System
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Introduction
“Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, cells and bodily fluids. The term encompasses both the medical specialty which uses tissues and body fluids to obtain clinically useful information, as well as the related scientific study of disease processes.”
Pathology is a broad and complex scientific field which seeks to understand the mechanisms of injury to cells and tissues, as well as the body's means of responding to and repairing injury. Disease processes may be incited or including trauma, infection, poisoning, loss of blood flow, autoimmunity, inherited or acquired genetic damage, or errors of development. One common theme in pathology is the way in which the body's responses to injury, while evolved to protect health, can also contributes in some ways to disease processes. Elucidation of general principles underlying pathologic processes, such as cellular adaptation to injury, cell death, inflammation and tissue repair creates a conceptual framework with which to analyze and understand specific human diseases. Physicians who practice pathology diagnose and characterize disease in living patients by examining biopsies and other specimens. For example, the vast majority of cancer diagnoses are made or confirmed by a pathologist. Pathologists may also conduct autopsies to investigate causes of death. The medical practice of pathology grew out the tradition of investigative pathology, and many of the academic leaders in pathology today are accomplished in both basic science research and diagnostic practice. However, as with other specialties in medicine, most modern physician-pathologists are employed in full-time practice, and do not perform original research. Pathology is a unique medical specialty in that pathologists typically do not see patients directly, but rather serves as consultants to other physicians (often referred to as "clinicians" within the pathology community). However, in the United States and in many other countries, pathologists receive the same doctorate training, and undergo the same medical licensure process as other physicians. Pathology is a diverse field, and the organizations of subspecialties within pathology vary between nations.
Project Description
In an attempt to facilitate the smooth operations of a pathology centre, this “Pathology Centre Management System” manages all the pathology related works such as Patient Registration, Conducting Tests & Delivering Reports to the patients. This would have a very optimum and effective measures for removing the cumbersome manual process. This project will automate the management of the Pathology Centre from the date of patient registration till the end of the delivering reports to the patient
Project Objective
Following are the objectives of the project:-
Automate the Pathology Centre Management System.
To develop the system that helps in management of a pathology Centre for different purposes.
For added security, there is an account for the administrator who is provided a password for the login into the system and is responsible for the management of the software. Employees can also login into the system only after providing the valid password and employee’s code assigned to them.
Automating the process involved in patient information management & the tests required by the patients.
Implements the automatic handling of manual processing Information control.
Possible security measures to maintain the confidentiality.
Report generation.
Elimination of the duplicate entries of the transcript information.
Scope of the project
This system ensures that all the necessary functionality for a proper working of Pathology Centre is identified and implemented. The scope of the project tends to provide the software in phases, so that further corrections and anomalies can be removed. Added security concerns and backup of the database shall be further implemented, in order to provide higher quality standard.
Hardware & Software Requirements
The installation of the software is very easy but it is to be ensured by the user that the following software and hardware requirements are met at the time of installation.
Hardware requirements: -
Processor : Pentium 4(2.4 GHz)
Main Memory : 128 MB
Monitor : 15” SVGA Colored
Printer : One High –Speed Printer
HDD : 50 MB (for installation)
Software requirements:-
Operating System: Win 2000, Windows XP
Back End : MS SQL Server 2000
Front End : VB.NET
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