Title :
Doctor on DVD: Virtual health consultation using interactive DVDs
Author :
Vashistha, Ankush
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Healthcare facilities in rural areas often lack staff, necessary resources and infrastructure. People in rural areas have to travel long distances to avail basic healthcare facilities. The cost of travel and healthcare consultation in nearby towns is prohibitive for many low-income people. We have anecdotally observed that the penetration of Television (TV) and DVD players in rural areas is higher than smartphones. In this work-in-progress concept note, we advocate an interactive DVD based healthcare decision support system for diagnosis and consultation of common diseases like dysentery, diarrhea, pneumonia etc. on the basis of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines. The interactive components of the DVD, videos of doctors speaking in local language, graphics, and animations can be used to provide contextual health information in a usable and intuitive manner.
Keywords :
decision support systems; digital versatile discs; health care; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; DVD players; Doctor on DVD; childhood illness guidelines; contextual health information; health care consultation; health care decision support system; interactive DVD; rural areas; virtual health consultation; Biomedical monitoring; DVD; Diseases; Lungs; Monitoring; TV; Community Health Workers; Interactive DVD; Rural Healthcare; User Interface Design;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2014 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
DOI :
10.1109/COMSNETS.2014.6734918