Development of a Mobile System Decision-support for Medical Diagnosis of Asthma in Primary Healthcare--InteliMED.
The structure of public and primary healthcare in Brazil is organized in a way to provide decentralized services. In theory, this scenario could enable the usage of mobile devices integrated with information systems of several purposes. In addition, there is a need of decision-support tools that are based on collected evidences, once the professional of primary healthcare, which essentially has general knowledge (non-specialist). Therefore there is a need of information that support the decision-making process on more specific contexts. This paper presents the proposal, experience of development and application of the InteliMED, a decision-support system to asthma diagnosis of children and adolescents through decision-trees and mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
SABER Tecnologias Educacionais e Sociais Research Group, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Júlio
J
Menezes
SABER Tecnologias Educacionais e Sociais Research Group, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Cristine
C
Gusmão
D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods