Embedded management system for out patient department

Abstract

In the resent past one field which has brought in many changes in the human lives is the technology. Technology is meant for bringing innovation in human lives and reduces the efforts to accomplish a task. Corporate hospitals today employ large number of doctors specialized in various fields. Out patients who wish to consult a particular doctor finds it very difficult to locate their respective doctor’s cabin. Keeping the patient’s difficulty of tracking the doctors, an embedded based device has been designed to assist patients to easily locate the doctor’s cabin. The device displays the room no and token number outside of the consultant’s room and as well as on the waiting room. The data of number of patients for various illnesses was collected from registration counters. The data for arrival patters of patients, the time taken at registration counters and at wards can be collected for one week period. The collected data’s will be used to calculate the efficiency of the hospital. An embedded system is defined as “A Programmable device, which can be designed to perform dedicated functionalities of a trivial system to scheduled functionalities of a large system”. The main aim of this project is to reduce the efforts of the patients who come to the hospital to consult the doctor to resolve their health concerns. And also useful for the hospital administration. This project is accomplished using embedded devices like microcontroller, microprocessor, printer, SD card, 7 segment led, and RS- 485 communication protocol.