DocumentCode
2512972
Title
Medical Digital Assistant: A Grassroot Solution for Chinese Rural Healthcare
Author
Jiang, Jiehui ; Yan, Zhuangzhi ; Kandachar, Prabhu
Author_Institution
Fac. of Ind. Design Eng. (IDE), Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
fYear
2009
fDate
11-13 June 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
China has the largest population in the world (1.3Billion) of which 0.9 Billion being the rural population. Currently, grassroot solutions for primary healthcare of rural population are becoming more and more popular medical digital assistant is one of these solutions, and this paper discusses whether it is an efficient solution from a design point of view. The results show that it may be an appropriate solution once some issues about content, usability and transplantation are addressed.
Keywords
health care; medical information systems; patient care; Chinese rural healthcare; electronic record management; grassroot solution; medical digital assistant; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Design engineering; Diseases; Hospitals; Medical services; Pediatrics; Positron emission tomography; Power generation economics; Usability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2901-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2902-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163038
Filename
5163038
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