Construction of a Hospital Advising System for more Suitable Medical Care

Abstract

In this study, a hospital advising system was constructed for supporting such selection in this study. This system was programed by PHP using a relational database, and runs on the Web. This database stores the pertinent data to hospitals, clinical departments, symptoms, and diseases in the thirteen tables, which were connected by each data ID. Thus, this system is able to output candidate of suitable hospitals and clinical departments in response to clinical symptoms, hospital's location and preferred visiting date. However, the working area of the system was restricted to abdominal symptoms and to hospitals in Isehara city because this study is just pilot study. This system was verified by the comparison between the actual output and the predicted outcome based on expert knowledge in the input of 2178 kinds. And, good answers were obtained in a questionnaire relevant to the usability of the system.