Abstract:
This research work designs and develops an enhanced health surveillance system for healthcare systems and services. Health surveillance system enables healthcare workers to easily detect, analyse, prevent and promptly respond to the outbreak of communicable diseases in an area or region and also facilitate efficient healthcare service delivery. The early detection of infectious diseases is very critical for an early response and hence control of disease outbreaks. Manual healthcare surveillance system is time consuming, labour-intensive and quite expensive to manage especially during disease outbreaks and natural disasters. The healthcare surveillance system developed is an online platform that allows medical professionals to enter records of prevalent diseases, communicable ailments and disease outbreaks in their locations which is made available to a monitoring and regulating agency of government or non-governmental health organizations. An enhanced health surveillance system allows for the prompt response to the colossal effect the disease could cause, preventing an epidemic and allowing a global share of information to enable easier management of such diseases in other climes. Enhanced health surveillance system will be beneficial to the health practitioners, the government among others. This system was designed using Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and implemented using jQuery Client Side Scripting language, PHP server side scripting language and MYSQL relational database management system.
