Title :
An e-Health tele-media application for patient management
Author :
Mwesigwa, Collins
Author_Institution :
Icon Frontiers (U) Ltd., Kampala, Uganda
Abstract :
Developing countries have challenges of providing health care services to its citizenry, delivering medical services and monitoring patients for progress and real-time data collection for research and development. In Uganda, Malaria, Malnutrition, respiratory tract infections, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis are leading causes of morbidity and mortality [7]. There is a great need to deploy technologies like Speech Recognition, IVR, SMS and web applications in the health sector that will provide patients (especially out-patients) with real-time management of illnesses, reactions or side effects to prescribed medication, update patients on scheduled doctor patient appointments and make prescription reminders, provide survey data for medical research, facilitate access diagnosis from a physician and general medical assistance using a combination of a web services, speech recognition, IVR and SMS.
Keywords :
Web services; diseases; electronic messaging; health care; interactive systems; medical computing; patient monitoring; real-time systems; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; telemedicine; voice communication; HIV/AIDS; IVR; SMS; Uganda; Web applications; Web services; access diagnosis; e-health telemedia application; health care services; health sector; illnesses; interactive voice response; malaria; malnutrition; medical research; medical services delivery; morbidity; mortality; patient management; patients monitoring; prescribed medication; prescription reminders; real-time data collection; real-time management; respiratory tract infections; scheduled doctor patient appointments; side effects; speech recognition; tuberculosis; Databases; Drugs; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Real-time systems; Speech recognition; i. SMS: SMS stands for Short Message Service. It is a method of communication that sends text between cell phones, or from a PC or handheld to a cell phone. The “short” part refers to the maximum size of the text messages of 160 characters (letters, numbers or symbols in the Latin alphabet). For other alphabets, such as Chinese, the maximum SMS size is 70 characters [4]; ii. IVR: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is a technology that allows computer-human interactions through the use of voice and dual-tone multi frequency signaling. IVR can be implemented as a hosted or premise based Service [26]; iii. Web applications: This is any application that uses a web browser as a client. The application can be as simple as a message board or a guest sign-in book on a website, or as complex as a word processor or a spreadsheet; iv. EMS: Electronic Medical Systems;
Conference_Titel :
IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (IST-Africa), 2013
Conference_Location :
Nairobi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-905824-38-0
