Online Medical Practitioner and Appointment Manager

Abstract

A medical practitioner is a professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. They may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, or methods of treatment – known as specialist medical practitioners – or assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities – known as general practitioners In the classical way of prescription, the patients arrive at the clinic or hospital in OPD and then takes appointment. After that covering a long queue the patients are given chance to meet the doctor. This way waste a lots of time. Now days, most of the service sector is fully automated whether it is utility based services, daily products, banking or finance. As far as the medical services are concerned, these are still relying on the traditional way of communication. Classically, the patients arrive at the doctor’s clinic with their series of symptoms or problems. The medical practitioner analyzes and provides the consultancy along with the prescription and future appointment. In the existing or classical way, the patient has to remember a series of medicines as well as the upcoming appointment. In the proposed system approach, we have developed a web based portal that will keep track of the medical prescription as well as the upcoming appointment that will be very easy to remember by the patient as well as the doctor. For implementation of this system, SMS Gateway is deployed that will communicate with the back-end database of each patient’s prescription and appointment. The SMS Gateway transmits the message to patient on the near date and time of the activity to be performed.