TY  - JOUR
TI  - A Secured Medical Booking System Using Qr-Code Authentication
AU  - Aderibigbe Ayodeji Azeez
AU  -  Aminat Ajibola
AU  -  Musa. M. Yahaya
JO  - International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology
PB  - Technoscience Academy
DA  - 2019/12/30
PY  - 2019
DO  - https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT195653
UR  - https://ijsrcseit.com/CSEIT195653
VL  - 5
IS  - 6
SP  - 305	
EP  - 311
AB  - In recent times due to the ever-increasing fast pace of life the number of missed appointments in medical institutions in Nigeria has caused problems, hence the need for a web based healthcare platform to intervene and provide seamless care for patients. Medical appointment scheduling, as the starting point of most non-urgent health care services, is undergoing major developments to support active involvement of patients. Medical appointment scheduling system lies at the intersection of providing efficiency and timely access to health services. By using the Internet as a medium, patients are given more freedom in decision making about their preferences for the appointments and have improved access. In this work a Web-based appointment scheduling system is designed to meet the needs under the current health care environment. The security of patients has been taken under consideration, QR code is been used as the e-authentication technique to protect patients’ and hospital information from unauthorized individuals. The system was developed using PHP, QR code authentication technique, VScode environment, apache and MySQL. This is to ensure that the application is robust, cheap, secured and is able to run on different platforms. The system provides the platform to facilitate the booking and management of patients’ appointment bookings. Patients can also view their appointment reports and progress. The system also provides healthcare workers an easy secured access to manage patients’ appointments, medical records and to generate relevant reports.