Android based patient’s healthcare management system

Abstract

An endeavor is made to advance the interaction between a general physician and a person via a smart phone application. This paper describes a tool with which we can improve the quality of treatment for patients using mobile application. The application, MyCare, runs on several Android based devices with Wi-Fi capability. This system allows users to conveniently record their measured health care data in their smart phones in a most convenient way and to track their long term health condition changes. Each time a person visits his or her physician, the data stored in his or her smart phone gets transferred to the health care service providers database wirelessly and enables the physician to easily get a clear picture of the patients health progress. Doctor’s instructions, prescriptions, guidelines and appointment details all can be written to the application in the smart phone and transferred to the health care service provider’s database wirelessly and the patient can review them leisurely. This system also enables users to check their wellness progress by representing their recorded data in the form of graphs and charts and can alert them on their prescription renewal dates. When patients record their daily health care data if the system notices any serious variation in the recorded data, it will automatically send a short message (SMS) briefly describing the abnormality in the data.