Title :
Medical Digital Assistant: A Grassroot Solution for Chinese Rural Healthcare
Author :
Jiang, Jiehui ; Yan, Zhuangzhi ; Kandachar, Prabhu
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Ind. Design Eng. (IDE), Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
China has the largest population in the world (1.3Billion) of which 0.9 Billion being the rural population. Currently, grassroot solutions for primary healthcare of rural population are becoming more and more popular medical digital assistant is one of these solutions, and this paper discusses whether it is an efficient solution from a design point of view. The results show that it may be an appropriate solution once some issues about content, usability and transplantation are addressed.
Keywords :
health care; medical information systems; patient care; Chinese rural healthcare; electronic record management; grassroot solution; medical digital assistant; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Design engineering; Diseases; Hospitals; Medical services; Pediatrics; Positron emission tomography; Power generation economics; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2901-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2902-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163038
