Abstract:
Web-based health management system for National Health Insurance Scheme is considered in this project work as an online information storage and retrieval internet portal where the stakeholders registered and participating in the National Health Insurance Scheme of the federal ministry of Health will be able to access relevant information regarding NHIS. The Internet portal will also be useful to prospective or intending participants who want to key into the programme. The stakeholders in the NHIS programme include Health Management Organizations, Health care Providers, health care professionals, tertiary institutions, federal employers and employees, agencies and parastatals, enrollees, Banks, Insurance companies and armed forces. The Health Management Organizations (HMOs), are classified into national , zonal, and state, while the health care providers consist of primary, secondary, tertiary and specialists. The health care professionals on the other hand are categorized into general medical practitioners, ophthalmologists, radiologists, dental surgeons, pharmacists, nurses/midwives. The other stake holders in the scheme include the non governmental organizations and paramilitary men .The Scheme is aimed at providing access to health care delivery services to the federal government workers, including the armed forces, students of tertiary institutions as well as other enrollees in the programme at subsidized rates on contributory basis. The main features of the system design include Home page where other menu items are displayed and accessed. The menu items include About Us, Operating Guidelines, NHIS Programmes, Requirements, NHIS Registration, Staff, profile, View, identity card and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).Each of the above listed menu items has other sub programme modules which allows the visitors to the site as well as the staff of the NHIS or the Administrators to use or work with the system for entry and display of users data respectively. The system can as well be queried for various options of activities .The implementation of the above design was carried out using Adobe Dream Weaver CS5, HTML, PHP Script programming language as the front end. Various database objects like Tables, Forms and Queries were created using MySQL at the backend. Different Graphical User interface windows were designed to enable all the stake holders or visitors to the website to interact with the system. Internet Explorer or Mozilla fire fox or any other browser can be used to visit the website. Comparison of features of different software Engineering process models for instance Iterative and Incremental process models were done. Various UML use-case diagrams were used to showcase the functionality of the new system. Implementation of health Insurance schemes in both developing and developed nations were also discussed. The portal address for this work is http://www.nhisng.org
