A Review on the Information System, and Development of Appointment Management System

Our life involves information systems almost everywhere and everything. Information systems are formal and organized systems with a set of components involved in the collection, processing, storage and distribution of information. A computer information system is a combination of user and computer to process or interpret information. In this paper, we try to review the overall information system and its evolution. We focus on the evolution of the Roman abacus’ information system as early as 2400 BC to modern technologies in the present world. We discuss the basic components and development stage of information systems and several types of information systems used for several purposes in our daily lives. Finally, we develop an Appointment Management System (AMS) to provide patients or any customer an easy way of booking a doctor’s appointment online. The information system is implemented using PHP, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, standard HTML and CSS, and the system will work on internet web browsers. We use three user modules for this system; those are - (1) Patient Module, (2) Doctor Module, and (3) Admin Module. The database mainly designs for some specific access such as additional information, modifying information, delete information, and search information.

信息系统已深度融入日常生活的每一处场景。信息系统是具备一套完整组件，用于信息采集、处理、存储与分发的正规化结构化系统。计算机信息系统是用户与计算机协同完成信息处理与解读的复合系统。本文旨在全面梳理信息系统及其演进历程，研究聚焦于从公元前2400年的古罗马算盘（Roman abacus）信息系统，直至当代前沿信息技术的发展脉络。本文还探讨了信息系统的基本构成与发展阶段，并梳理了日常生活中服务于不同需求的各类信息系统类型。最后，本文开发了一款预约管理系统（Appointment Management System, AMS），可为患者及普通用户提供便捷的在线医生预约服务。本系统基于PHP、MySQL、JQuery、JavaScript、标准HTML及CSS技术开发，可兼容各类互联网网页浏览器。本系统设置三类用户角色模块，分别为：(1) 患者模块（Patient Module）、(2) 医生模块（Doctor Module）与(3) 管理员模块（Admin Module）。数据库主要支持四类核心操作：新增信息、修改信息、删除信息与查询信息。