DocumentCode
2308595
Title
Design and implementation of mobile health consultation between doctors and diabetes patient
Author
Simarmata, David P Irsan Jaya ; Supangkat, Suhono Harso
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Technol., Bandung Inst. of Technol., Bandung, Indonesia
fYear
2012
fDate
26-27 April 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
In general, consultation among doctor and patient is done by the patient went to the doctor in real situation. Therefore, patients must provide time and cost to consult with a physician. Nowadays, everybody can communicate with one another by use smart phone through internet connection. Particularly in Indonesia, nearly 54% people use the internet and mostly of them use the internet by phone or smart phone. Because this phenomena, this research has purposed to designed consultation system among doctor and patient by using smart phone through internet connection. The consultation can be done in anytime, anywhere since we connect with internet connection. In this research, we choose the specific patient. We pick diabetes patient because in Indonesia, the number of diabetes patients has the fourth highest ranking in the world according from WHO database.
Keywords
Internet; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; smart phones; Indonesia; Internet connection; WHO database; diabetes patient; doctors; mobile health consultation design; mobile health consultation implementation; smart phone; Browsers; Diabetes; Internet; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Sugar; Consultation; Diabetes; Mobile Internet; Smart phone;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Cloud Computing and Social Networking (ICCCSN), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Bandung, West Java
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1815-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCCSN.2012.6215738
Filename
6215738
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