Web-Based Medical E-Consulting System

Abstract

The difficulties in accessing medical services are alarming and have become of a serious concern in Africa, particularly in Nigeria. The lack of enough medical professionals due to relocation syndrome and difficulties people undergo to access medical consultations is what motivated this research. The Medical eConsulting System is for medical consultations online. It is a platform where medical professionals and those in need of any medical services can register while patients known as buyers of medical services can as well register to consult medical professionals. There have been in existence different form of medical consultations systems but not highly effective due to lack of accessibility and affordability by all. The system is developed to give medical professionals of different specialties, the opportunity to offer their services online to buyers (patients) and get paid. The development of this system is very necessary because it will reduce the lack of medical professionals in some medical field and the stress patients undergo in the hospital while waiting for the few doctors available to attend to them. It is accessible and affordable to all in need of medical consultations. Object oriented methodology was used to design the system. The Medical eConsulting System is designed with PHP programming language for the Server-Side, HTML, CSS was used for the front-end and MySQL as the relational database management system.