NU (4) An ID System for Patients by Hannah A

Hannah Rhuelle B. Abellera

S10 ENTREP

NU (4) An ID System for Patients

World-class hospitals are arising in the Philippines, either it is renovated or new hospitals were built to offer high-tech facilities and services. It is inevitable that a person cannot be sick and visit a doctor, kids or adults, male or female. Of course, the patient's visit due to his/her illness will have a record that will be filed to serve as a reference for doctors in tracking that patient's history of illness. Storage of files and maintaining it for a long period of time will result to eating up spaces on the doctor's clinic. Most of the time, after long years, it will just be disposed. I think it would be better to let a patient have his/her general hospital identification card that has a Quick Response (QR) Code in it. The ID will be freely issued by the hospital.  Once the QR Code in the ID is scanned, it will directly link into an online database of the hospital. Basically, these are the following information that could be found in it:

-        Patient's medical history, the patient's sickness and its probable cause

-        Patient's medication, name of drugs and its dosage prescribed, duration of intake

-        Observations to the patient while still admitted in the hospital

-        Name of the doctor who attended to the patient

-        Name of the nurse who monitored the patient

-        Name of the hospital visited

-        Billing statement, if confined or operated in the hospital

The ID card will be issued by the hospital of free charge. Another thing, hospitals need to have computers with QR code readers posted on each level of the hospital, two for each level located on its both ends. Nurses will directly encode the pertinent data of the patient on the database that is accessible in the internet. And if the patient is admitted, observations of the doctors and nurse would be encoded. There will computers also in the rooms of the patients. Doctors need not to write on their notepad to prescribe medication and the summary of the consultation or treatment in a record sheet, but it will be directly on the database. Only the doctor can make a correction and addition on the patient's history because before the input of data, the database will be accessed first by the doctor, in which he/she will have its own unique identity code. The prescribed drugs can be bought to the pharmacies that have QR code readers posted in their stores.

With the use of this new ID system, storage of paper in the doctor's clinic will be of less existence, the patient will have easy access on his/her medical history and medication taken.  4