You have been asked to develop a database system for the Elijah Community Hospital. ECH is a small, local community hospital with approximately 125 beds. The basic goal is to provide high-quality, cost-effective health-care services for the surrounding community in North Georgia.
The various business functions that the hospital currently has are:
- Patient care administration software-record keeping aspects of patient care
- Clinic and lab services software-provides lab testing and procedures and patient monitoring & screening
- Patient care software-provide patients with medical care and support services
- Financial management software-manage the financial resources and operations of the hospital
- Administrative services software-provide general management and support services not directly related to patient care
The patient care and clinic and lab services include: laboratory tests, radiology procedures, admissions, in-patient and out-patient surgeries, labor and delivery services, intensive care, cardiology, open-heart surgery, neurology department, pediatric medical and surgical care, orthopedics, oncology, and a 24-hour emergency department.
The staff on the hospital includes 600 full-time and 200 part-time personnel including doctors, registered nurses, laboratory technicians, counselors, rehabilitation therapists, social services staff, admittance/discharge staff, insurance staff, janitorial staff, and security staff.
For this Lab you will do the following based on the explanation of the Elijay Community Hospital:
- a) Using the Business Functions identified in the description of the Elijay Community Hospital -List the various Entities that support EACH Business function (done in Word) – each business function should have a separate list of entities associated with it.
Example: Patient Care Administration (business function)
Patient (entity), etc.
Clinical Services (business function)
Patient (entity)
Lab Test (entity), etc.
Part 2:
Hand draw the high-level E/R diagram for the hospital including all entities and relationships (do NOT include cardinalities for this lab).
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