Hospital Equipment Loan System.

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? Introduction and Specification:

Like many businesses, HELS are starting to make use of computers and computer systems to make the day-to-day operation of their company easier on the management and more efficient. As the nature of the business is unique and no existing packages are suitable for handling the business demands and requirements and has been decided that a custom made application should be designed to meet this challenge.

Hospital Equipment Loan System specified that such a system should be able to:

Have the ability to store details of the equipment.

Have a suitable item code to be devised, which identifies each piece of equipment individually, while indicating what type of equipment it is.

Find the following information for any individual piece of equipment:

1) Whether it is available, being repaired or out on loan

2) If on loan, to whom and at what address or ward number

3) If on loan, when it is due to be returned or the loan renewed

4) If being repaired, when was it sent for repair

The package needs to be suitable for the required purpose, to satisfy the set