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IJSREM64940
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10 |
6 |
Jun 2026
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1-3
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Monthly (12 issues per year)
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Computer Engineering
RIZVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
RIZVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
RIZVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
RIZVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
RIZVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Healthcare institutions worldwide face increasing administrative burdens due to fragmented, manual, or partially-digitized workflows. Paper-based appointment registers, disconnected pharmacy ledgers, and isolated billing systems introduce significant opportunities for data loss, scheduling conflicts, and delayed patient care. This paper presents MediCore, a centralized web-based Hospital Management System (HMS) designed to unify and automate core hospital operations. MediCore implements a strict three-tier architecture (Presentation, Application, and Database layers) using PHP and MySQL, and enforces role-based access control across three dedicated portals: Admin, Doctor, and Patient. The Admin portal provides real-time dashboards, complete CRUD control over doctors and departments, appointment oversight, pharmacy and medicine inventory management, and feedback administration. The Doctor portal surfaces today's appointment schedule, patient histories, and prescription management. The Patient portal enables self-registration, a three-step appointment booking wizard, prescription viewing, PDF bill download, profile management, and a feedback/query submission channel. All authentication is handled through password-hashed session management with automatic role-based routing. MediCore demonstrates how modern web technologies can effectively digitize hospital operations, reduce administrative overhead, and improve the patient care experience within a single, unified deployment.
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This paper has presented MediCore, a Hospital Management System that successfully unifies patient registration, appointment scheduling, pharmacy management, billing, and feedback collection into a single, role-partitioned web application. The following contributions are established: • Three-Portal Role Architecture: Decorator-enforced, server-side role-based access control cleanly separates administrative, clinical, and patient-facing interfaces, ensuring data privacy and operational security. • Integrated Pharmacy and Billing: Prescriptions are directly linked to appointments, and bills are automatically generated from prescription data, eliminating dual-entry errors and data inconsistency. • Patient Self-Service: The patient portal enables independent registration, three-step appointment booking, prescription access, and PDF bill download without requiring administrative intermediation. • Real-Time Admin Visibility: Dashboard KPIs, appointment filters, and inventory tracking provide administrators with immediate operational awareness. • Deployment Simplicity: The XAMPP-based deployment requires no cloud infrastructure, making MediCore accessible to small and medium healthcare institutions. Future extensions include native Android and iOS patient applications, SMS/email notification services for appointment reminders, advanced revenue and demographic analytics dashboards, cloud deployment on AWS/Azure/GCP for scalability and disaster recovery, and multi-hospital branch support under a unified administrative umbrella.
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6/16/2026
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