M-doctor for preliminary treatment of diseases in India

One of the current needs of the Indian government system is to provide equal medical services and facilities for both urban and remote/rural areas. But unfortunately this need has not been achieved till today hence people living in remote/rural areas are needed to go to urban areas to seek doctor to get preliminary treatment for their common diseases like fever, typhoid, dengue, malaria, chikungunya and so on in order to get proper guidance and treatment at an earlier stage itself. But these people cannot able to get preliminary treatment for their common diseases because along with medical expenses travelling expenses will also be included, which cannot be offered by these people. Travel also includes the risk of road traffic, accident and can make worse the medical condition of a person and sometimes it may lead to death also. This work has focused on this aspect by developing a client application and a server application. The client application allows the health worker to collect the symptoms and other necessary information about a patient in the remote/rural areas and then to send that information to the server application in the form of a Short Message Service (SMS). The server application in the urban area interprets the received message and generates the prescription automatically based on the symptoms of a patient and allows the doctor to view and to validate the generated prescription based on the symptoms and previous prescription details of a patient, if any, and finally to send the validated prescription to the health worker in the form of an SMS (which will finally reach the patient). The server application also allows the doctor to send any informative messages to the health worker in the form of an SMS (which will finally reach the people living in remote/rural areas).