Open AccessQuick Response Code Based Online Appointment Scheduling System: An Approach towards Health Management
Author(s) -
Kyati Varshney,
Agnivesh Gupta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i46a32856
Subject(s) - health care , phone , medical emergency , smart phone , web application , code (set theory) , medical record , computer science , medicine , world wide web , telecommunications , economics , radiology , programming language , economic growth , linguistics , philosophy , set (abstract data type)
For day to day functioning of healthcare services in healthcare sector there is requirement of managing, tracking and keeping patient appointment and medication related information in a effective and efficient way. If a person is suffering from any disease and needs to visit a doctor in a hospital for checkup the patient required to fill hospital registration form in hospital and waits in a long queue while getting an appointment. In some hospitals online appointments can be done by web or smart phone application. Some of these existing applications do not provide information regarding doctor availability, and do not provide patients medical records, etc. This paper proposes a web based application to overcome drawbacks related to existing appointment systems. In this paper the web application will provide a unique QR code to each patient, at the time the patient takes an online appointment for the doctor. The study provides an efficient way of managing health care accessibility in future.