Health Clinic System with e-Health and Android Technology for University in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

In 2030 Vision for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most critical issues is improving the manual and traditional health clinic system that will provide faster, efficient and quality healthcare services. The objective of this study is to understand the manual system used by a university clinic in Saudi Arabia and propose an automated system to realize the benefits of e-Health that started few years ago. Utilization of Android Mobile technology for clinic management and providing of care services will improve the general efficacy of the corporation, and the efficiency of the clinic by reducing wasting time experienced by patients. It also will help to provide patient care, manage clinic staff and patient data, manage and recall information encountered by the usual hospital system. We distributed a survey to collect information from students and clinic employees of several universities in Saudi Arabia to develop user requirements in the system. We developed our proposed system using JAVA language in the front-end connected with the back-end software. Also, we used tools such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), and My Structured Query Language (MySQL). This automated system provides multiple patient services and will improve the information infrastructure.