Can "patient keeper" help in-patients?
The aim of this paper is to present our "Patient Keeper" application, which is a client-server medical application. "Patient Keeper" is designed to run on a mobile phone for the client application and on a PC for the server application using J2ME and JAVA2, respectively. This application can help doctors during visits to their patients in hospitals. The client application allows doctors to store on their mobile phones the results of their diagnoses and findings such as temperature, blood pressure, medications, analysis, etc., and send this information to the server via short message service (SMS) for storage in a database. The server can also respond to any request from the client and send the result via Bluetooth, infrared, or over the air. Experimental results showed a significant improvement of the healthcare delivery and reduction for in-patient stay.
Al-Hinnawi
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria. drmfh@scs-net.org
D040421:Cell Phone; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010820:Physicians; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface