title: [Design of the Medical Digital Assistant for "bottom of the pyramid"].
abstract: To meet the challenges such as raising the efficiency of medical resources, slowing the fastly-increasing medical costs and keeping the sustainability of the aging society and chronic diseases, this paper introduces a Medical Digital Assistant system for "BOP", which includes a mobile monitoring unit,a data transferring unit, and a managing unit, and presents the system's evaluating method. In addition, a new application model and the service workflow are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
authors.forename: Jie-hui
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Zhuang-zhi
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003199:Computer Systems; D004867:Equipment Design; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D019035:Rural Health Services; D012985:Software Design; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods