ABSTRACT
Under the growing uncertainties prevailing around the world, one of the most debated topics that have brought worldwide medical facilities to the test would be the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic devastating people from all walks of life. The constant intake of chronically ill or possible Covid19 infected patients into the hospital along with the high influx of visitors is harming the safety and wellbeing of both the front liners and patients especially when hospitals are one of the most important facilities to combat the spread of Covid-19 into the community. Concerning this, the researcher proposes a Visitation Management System (VMS) that solves certain key problems arising due to the high influx of hospital's visitors that causes a significant risk of Covid-19 infection, additional hospital staff to cope with the high influx of visitors at the entrance of the hospital, the difficulty of identifying high-risk Covid-19 infection locations in the hospital, as well as risk of shutting down hospitals if there are Covid-19 clusters found while losing profits or income. Apart from that, this research uses Rapid Application Development as the system development methodology for the development of VMS. Both requirement gathering methods via interview and questionnaire have been applied among various users. This research has included the findings of the collected analytical data to highlight the user requirements of VMS and a system providing proof of concept to underline the implementation of VMS to help curb the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals. © 2021 IEEE.