Patient Billing Software System Abstarct This project is aimed at developing a patient billing software system that is of importance to a hospital. The PBS is a local software system. This system can be used to maintain the location (bed no.) of each patient either in the ward or the ICU. Information about the patient and the charges to be paid is also stored. NEED FOR AUTOMATION The development of this new system contains the following activities, which try to automate the entire process keeping in the view of database integration approach. The existing system needs to save patients information in the form of excels sheet. The manual system gives us very less security for saving data; some data may be lost due to mismanagement. Searching of particular room vacancy information is very critical where it takes lot of time. This system is not having the facility of tracking transfers of patients from the general ward to the ICU and vice versa. PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM This project is aimed at developing a patient billing software system that is of importance to a hospital. The PBS is a local software system. This system can be used to maintain the location (bed no.) of each patient either in the ward or the ICU. Information about the patient and the charges to be paid is also stored. EXISTING SYSTEM The existing system needs to save patients information in the form of excels sheets. The manual system gives us very less security for saving data; some data may be lost due to mismanagement. Searching of particular room vacancy information is very critical where it takes lot of time. This system is not having the facility of tracking transfers of patients from the general ward to the ICU and vice versa. LIMITATIONS IN EXISTING SYSTEM The current system is not completely complete computerized and manual system in entering students and staff data and handling it. There is no centralized database maintenance There is no easy access to the particular employee record The administrator and employee  cannot easily navigate through the database PROPOSED SYSTEM The development of this new system contains the following activities, which try to automate the entire process keeping in the view of database integration approach. This system can provide the information about the patient based on the ward number whether the patient is either in the general ward or the ICU. By using this system we can prepare all bills pending to be paid by a patient before the patient’s discharge. We can keep a track of all beds occupied / free in both the ward and the ICU by using this system. We can keep track of all transfers of patients from the general ward to the ICU and vice versa. This system is providing the facility of viewing all information about patients details, their admit time and the amount to be paid based on the treatment given and the ward selected. We can register all the patient details like the amount to be paid / any balance remaining, the ward number, the bed number, the registration number, case number etc. as soon as a new patient is joined in the hospital. Authentication is provided for this application only registered employees   can access. NUMBER OF MODULES Administrator Employee (Receptionist) Payment Module Security and authentication Reports MODULES DESCRIPTION Administrator: This module is having the facility of adding/deleting the branches details of the hospital. He maintains all the employee’s details. He also can view all the details of patients and billing generation regarding the patients. He maintains the records of doctor’s movement from one branch to another branch. Employee: This module is dealing with the details of all patients details, their admit time and the amount to be paid based on the treatment given and the ward selected. We can also view the patient details like amount to be paid / any balance remaining, the ward number, the bed number, the registration number, case number etc. Keep a track of all beds occupied / free in both the ward and the ICU. Keep a track of all transfers of patients from the general ward to the ICU and vice versa. Payment Module : This module is dealing with the patient bill generation as well as payment through the credit card or cash. Security and Authentication: 1. Login as Receptionist or administrator 2. Change password 3. Forgot Password Reports:  In this Module, Different actors can generate the different types of Reports according to their access. Software Requirements : Operating System                :               Windows XP/2003 or Linux User Interface                    :               HTML, CSS Client-side Scripting             :               JavaScript Programming Language                :               Java Web Applications                 :               JDBC, Servlets, JSP IDE/Workbench                   :               My Eclipse 6.0 Database                           :               Oracle 10g Server Deployment              :               Tomcat 5.x Frame Work                       :               Struts 1.x