DocumentCode
3411209
Title
Mobile decision support system for outreach health worker
Author
Kuntagod, Nataraj ; Mukherjee, Chhandak
Author_Institution
Infosys Labs., Infosys Technol. Ltd., Bangalore, India
fYear
2011
fDate
13-15 June 2011
Firstpage
56
Lastpage
59
Abstract
People in rural areas do not have convenient access to quality healthcare close to their locations. Although there are health care centers in villages, they are not staffed and most lack in basic infrastructural facilities. Villagers are forced to travel long distances to district head quarters or major cities to avail of medical facilities, often at high cost, which they can ill afford. We developed a mobile based decision support framework on the Android open platform and demonstrated the feasibility of building the complete end to end system for large scale deployment to outreach health worker. The decision support system enables the outreach health worker to deliver consistent and quality primary healthcare to rural population. The same platform can host other revenue generating opportunities for the outreach worker to keep them motivated and providing them a means of livelihood.
Keywords
decision support systems; health care; mobile computing; Android open platform; health care centers; mobile decision support system; outreach health worker; quality healthcare; Context; Decision support systems; Guidelines; Medical services; Mobile communication; Servers; Smart phones; Android; Decision Support System; Rural Health;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2011 13th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Columbia, MO
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-695-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-61284-696-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026786
Filename
6026786
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