Title :
Social network for Thailand medical tourism
Author :
Muangna, Ujaya ; Netramai, Chayakorn
Author_Institution :
Software Syst. Eng., KMUTNB, Bangkok, Thailand
Abstract :
The growth of medical tourism in Thailand attracted many organizations to develop applications for assisting traveler information. However, these applications may not satisfy all traveler´s requirements in term of medical, tourism and social network. In consequence, this study has been proposed a new prototype of the mobile social network application to support medical tourist´s requirement. The proposed application was designed to improve the quality of information by integrating three types of data: social networks, tourism and medical data from reliable resources such as Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Facebook, Twitter and Google. The prototype of the application created to run on Windows Phone 7.5 which provides all travelers required information via Restful web services. The prototype test results of three cases in Bangkok area work well.
Keywords :
Web services; health care; medical information systems; social networking (online); travel industry; Bangkok; Facebook; Google; Restful web services; TAT; Thailand medical tourism; Tourism Authority of Thailand; Twitter; Windows Phone; information quality; medical data; medical tourist requirement; mobile social network application; traveler information assistant; Facebook; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Servers; Twitter; Web services; Medical tourism; Mobile application; Social network;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON), 2013 6th
Conference_Location :
Amphur Muang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1466-1
DOI :
10.1109/BMEiCon.2013.6687677