Title :
Ubiquitous health care framework for the rural African environment
Author :
Mark, Muwanguzi ; Ngwira, Seleman M.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Dept., Tshwane Univ. of Technol., Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract :
With the advancement of technology and telecommunication, ICT is in a position to play a major role in Public Health planning, disease eradication and containment. The introduction of Ubiquitous computing into the health care system will ensure that patient data is readily available to those authorized and can be collected and analyzed in real time. In this paper we designed and developed a Ubiquitous health care framework that is best suited for developing African states that will assist in health care planning, collection and management of patient records, decision and basic diagnostic support. The system proposed looks at all aspects of public health and envisages to integrate them into one.
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical telemetry; diseases; health care; medical computing; medical information systems; patient diagnosis; disease eradication; health care planning; health care system; patient records; rural African environment; telecommunication; ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous health care framework; Databases; Decision support systems; Diseases; Mobile communication; Public healthcare; Surveillance; CDSS; Public Health; e-health; e-surveillance; mobile computing; ubiquitous computing;
Conference_Titel :
AFRICON, 2011
Conference_Location :
Livingstone
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-992-8
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.2011.6072068