Design and development of an m-health multi-conference and multi-platform application

Author

Ramos, Rodrigo Belisário ; Pacheco, Fernando Santana ; Schwarz, Leandro ; Zapirain, Begoña García

Author_Institution

DAELN/IFSC, Fed. Inst. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

490

Lastpage

493

Abstract

The objective of this project is to design and develop a multi-conference and multi-platform application for phones as an m-health system, to improve the communication between healthcare providers and healthcare recipients, to eliminate the obstacles of distance, providing faster and specialized services to people living in remote areas. There is a variety of operating systems for smart-phones on the market. This project focus on Apple iOS, Android or BlackBerry-playbooks, as they are the most commonly used operating systems, nowadays. Currently the system was tested on Android smart-phones and it showed stable providing text and video communication between two individuals.

Keywords

health care; mobile computing; smart phones; teleconferencing; telemedicine; Android; Apple iOS; BlackBerry playbooks; healthcare providers; healthcare recipients; m-health multiconference application; m-health multiplatform application; smart phones; text communication; video communication; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Navigation; Registers; Servers; Videoconferences; home care; m-Health; multi-platform application; video-conference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2039-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-2038-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379469

Filename

6379469