Abstract
The new generation cellular phones have multi-functional capabilities such as imaging, video, audio recording and messaging in addition to providing internet access. In this paper we present an innovative application in the field of remote health monitoring using N900 Nokia tablet, which will serve as a communicating device between the patient and healthcare providers like doctors and nurses. Patients with arthritis require regular objective monitoring of their affected joints by healthcare providers requiring that patients report their subjective pain levels to their physicians. The application has a patient's module allowing the patient to select their pain level on a sliding scale from a graphical representation of various human joints and send this as an SMS to the doctor. The healthcare providers can review the pain level, save it to a database and make an informed decision about possible recommendations based on the data received via SMS. The doctor's module allows the doctor to capture all the attributes of an affected joint discretely using the graphical representation of the joints and associated dialog boxes. The complete Graphical User Interface (GUI) development and data base design are discussed and test cases are presented. We plan to evaluate the application in a real healthcare environment for usability, its role in improving patient satisfaction and health outcomes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2012 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 116-125 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 2012-April |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9785808807075 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 9 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 11th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2012 - St-Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: Apr 23 2012 → Apr 27 2012 |
Other
Other | 11th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2012 |
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Country/Territory | Russian Federation |
City | St-Petersburg |
Period | 4/23/12 → 4/27/12 |
Keywords
- Health Outcomes
- Human body joint pain
- Nokia N900
- Remote Monitoring
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering