Title :
Design and development of an m-health multi-conference and multi-platform application
Author :
Ramos, Rodrigo Belisário ; Pacheco, Fernando Santana ; Schwarz, Leandro ; Zapirain, Begoña García
Author_Institution :
DAELN/IFSC, Fed. Inst. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Abstract :
The objective of this project is to design and develop a multi-conference and multi-platform application for phones as an m-health system, to improve the communication between healthcare providers and healthcare recipients, to eliminate the obstacles of distance, providing faster and specialized services to people living in remote areas. There is a variety of operating systems for smart-phones on the market. This project focus on Apple iOS, Android or BlackBerry-playbooks, as they are the most commonly used operating systems, nowadays. Currently the system was tested on Android smart-phones and it showed stable providing text and video communication between two individuals.
Keywords :
health care; mobile computing; smart phones; teleconferencing; telemedicine; Android; Apple iOS; BlackBerry playbooks; healthcare providers; healthcare recipients; m-health multiconference application; m-health multiplatform application; smart phones; text communication; video communication; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Navigation; Registers; Servers; Videoconferences; home care; m-Health; multi-platform application; video-conference;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2039-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2038-3
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379469
