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Kidney Transplant Waiting List Management System Aim To create a system (in collaboration with the Kent and Canterbury Hospital Renal Unit) to help deal with the management of Kidney Transplant patients. The system is being developed using Active Server Pages (ASP.NET 2.0) with script written in Visual Basic.NET and a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The main development tool for this project is Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005. All of the above will allow for good compatibility with the .NET framework and IIS (Internet Information Services) which are both requirements of the system in order that it will run on the hospital network. Below is a mock up of the main menu for the system and the relational schema for the database. The Current Problem Currently the hospital uses a system of spreadsheets to manage their patient data. These are notoriously unreliable and inaccurate. Data entry is very time consuming seeing as the data is spread over numerous spreadsheets and as a result of this, the data often goes out of sync with the main kidney transplant list held at Guys Hospital in London (i.e. the list kept in Canterbury will say something different to the list kept in London). Storing the data in a spreadsheet with the current set-up means that it can only be accessed by one person at a time on a local machine and there are not enough security measures in place to protect access to the data. Our Solution Our solution was to develop a web-based database system that could be run on the hospital Intranet. This would have the advantage of being able to be run from any computer in the hospital and allow for certain access rights to be given to varying members of staff (for instance, consultants could have more access rights than nurses). The main aim of the software is to ensure that the local copy of the active transplant list kept by the Kent and Canterbury Hospital agrees with the list kept by UK Transplant at Guys Hospital. To comply with this, the system will need built in Email functionality. It should also provide data reporting functionality, online help and allow for audit trail tracking (to keep tabs on changes to the data). This diagram shows the architecture of the proposed system with clients connecting to the hospital web server which in turn makes queries to an SQL database. Client HTTP interaction Web Server Client Client Account Service Provision SQL Query Database Server SQL Patient database A tool for wider use? After thorough searching, we have been unable to locate any other systems in the medical community similar to the one we are developing, so if the tool is a success at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital then there is the possibility it can be migrated to other hospitals in the South East region and possibly to others nationwide. KTWLMS was created as a final year project by Tristan Cuthbert, Evdokia Kolia and Lewis Webb For more details please contact Roger Cooley ([email protected])