DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFICIENT EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT MODEL USING INTEGRATED DATABASE AND DATA MINING TECHNIQUE

SOURCE:

Faculty: Physical Sciences
Department: Computer Science

CONTRIBUTORS:

Okpalla C. Lilian
Inyiama H.C.

ABSTRACT:

Lack of adequate management and access to the patients’ previous health records especially in event of emergency makes health care sector inefficient. The aim of this research is to develop and implement an efficient emergency healthcare management model for storing both present and previous health related records of patients in Nigeria such that a wide range of hospitals could share the stored information for the purpose of making prompt decisions about patients in times of emergency. Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM) was employed to design the system. MySQL database engine was employed to implement the database used in this work. PHP, JavaScript programming environment and association rule data mining technique were employed to implement the software model. The result of this work is an efficient emergency healthcare management model that can be deployed in hospitals, healthcare centres, ministry of health and other healthcare parastatals. Test run of the software using confusion matrix showed an improved delivery of healthcare data by 93% using K-mean classification algorithm as against 83% using K-Nearest Neighbour Classification algorithm and 81% using Apriori classification algorithm and has the capacity to reduce time in delivering service to patients in cases of emergency by providing real time health information on patients across Nigeria.