• 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