Desarrollo de una aplicación web para el seguimiento y control de pacientes de un consultorio odontológico.

Abstract

Nowadays, the use of web applications is very common in the daily life of people, these applications have been used in different areas such as health, commerce, education, among others, as it facilitates access to various services that they can provide. Currently many establishments, both large and small, either public or private, have seen the need to implement this type of applications to manage their services, especially in the field of health, because due to the situation we have gone through in recent years, the demand for these services has been increasing and with the use of this technology they are able to offer better care to their customers. For the attention in the dental office Salud Dental, patients had to go in person to get a dental appointment and be attended, but this has not always guaranteed that the attention is carried out the day the client comes to the office, this causes a waste of time and resources for the client. Also, the fact that all administrative processes are handled manually, such as the registration of patients and their medical history, can cause inconsistencies in the data, such as duplication of patients or loss of data and information, which can only cause the practice to lose credibility and gain bad publicity. For this reason, the dental office saw the need to automate these processes in order to optimize its resources, keep better control and follow-up of the patient and thus provide better care. The implementation of the web application in the dental office allows the management and storage of patient data and information in a database in order to have better control over the users who register on the platform. This proposal handles three types of users: Client, Doctor, Administrator. The client can register, manage an appointment according to the service he/she wishes to access, review his/her appointment history and visualize his/her medical prescription; the doctor can visualize pending appointments, the patient's clinical history, register the consultation and prescribe medication; finally, the administrator can register a new patient and a new doctor, schedule appointments for unregistered patients and keep track of doctors and patients. All three types of users can modify their data. For the development of this proposal we applied the Extreme Programming methodology, better known as XP, a agile methodology, which is considered one of the most popular methodologies today because it focuses on customer needs. In addition, the CASE tools Balsamiq and Visual Studio were used for the design of the prototype. On the other hand, for programming, the tools JavaScript, Node.js, React, JWT, Redux and ANT Design were used, and finally for data and information storage Mongoose and the MongoDB database were used, implementing a Client-Server architecture.