Data Flow Diagram (DFD) for Existing System
Context Diagram DFD for (Existing) Billing System
Diagram 0 DFD (Existing) Billing System
Narrative of the Existing System’s DFD
PROCESS 1 – FILL OUT GREEN FORM
Upon admission, patient will fill out the green form, otherwise known as the notice of
admission, at the Accounting department. It will then be stored in a brown envelope
where it will be retrieved when the patient is ready for discharge.
PROCESS 2 – FILL OUT PHILHEALTH FORM
If upon admission the patient is a dependent, he is then required to fill out Philhealth
form and it will then be processed so that the patient becomes Philhealth member.
PROCESS 3 – PROCESS PHILHEALTH INFORMATION
When the patient is ready for discharge the green form will be retrieved from the
brown envelope and the Philhealth information of the patient will be processed along
with other required documents.
PROCESS 4 – PROCESS BILLING STATEMENT
The required documents and the individual charts of the patients from the revenue
centers (i.e. CSR, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Radiology), which includes the charges
slip, will be processed by the billing department.
If, for instance, there are charge slips not encoded by the revenue centers, they will
be sent back to the respective revenue centers for encoding of the said charge slips.
If there are no more problems with the charge slips and the required documents, the
billing statement will be processed which will be given to the patient.