Title :
Unified mobile public health care system (UMPHCS) for underdeveloped countries
Author :
Sakib, Shadman ; Haq, Rabia ; Wazed, Tariq
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Naval Archit. & Marine Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
In this paper, we have proposed a new smartphone based system for health care, monitoring and diagnosis, which is specially designed to efficiently increase the public health care system in the distant, rural, unreached areas of the underdeveloped and developing countries. In this all-in-one system, we have digitized the health monitoring and diagnostic devices in a way so that each device works as a minimum `plug and play´ sensor module of the total system, reducing the cost radically. Besides, the easy-to-use smartphone application for operating the whole system reduces the necessity of skilled and trained manpower, making it a perfect toolbox for the government health workers in the unreached rural areas.
Keywords :
health care; medical diagnostic computing; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; smart phones; UMPHCS; all-in-one system; developing countries; diagnostic devices; distant areas; easy-to-use smartphone application; government health workers; health monitoring; minimum plug and play sensor module; smartphone based system; underdeveloped countries; unified mobile public health care system; unreached rural areas; Blood pressure; Bluetooth; Databases; Lenses; Medical services; Software; Temperature sensors; Diagnosis; Health Care; Micro-controller; Smartphone; Underdeveoped Area; Unreached People;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dhaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5179-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEV.2014.6850801