title: Designing of Intelligent Multilingual Patient Reported Outcome System (IMPROS).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  By self-reporting outcome procedure the patients themselves record disease symptoms outside medical centers and then report them to medical staff in specific periods of time. One of the self-reporting methods is the application of interactive voice response (IVR), in which some pre-designed questions in the form of voice tracks would be played and then the caller responses the questions by pressing phone's keypad bottoms.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present research explains the main framework of such system designing according to IVR technology that is for the first time designed and administered in Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interactive Voice Response system was composed by two main parts of hardware and software. Hardware section includes one or several digital phone lines, a modem card with voice playing capability and a PC. IVR software on the other hand, acts as an intelligent control center, records call information and controls incoming data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One of the main features of the system is its capability to be administered in common PCs, utilizing simple and cheap modems, high speed to take responses and it's appropriateness to low literate patients. The system is applicable for monitoring chronic diseases, cancer and also in psychological diseases and can be suitable for taking care of elders and Children who require long term cares. Other features include user-friendly, decrease in direct and indirect costs of disease treatment and enjoying from high level of security to access patients' profiles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intelligent multilingual patient reported outcome system (IMPROS) by controlling diseases gives the opportunity to patients to have more participation during treatment and it improves mutual interaction between patient and medical staff. Moreover it increases the quality of medical services, Additional to empowering patients and their followers.
authors.affiliation: Road Traffic Injury Prevention Center and Department of Medical Informatics, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Faramarz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pourasghar
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Yeganeh
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Partovi
keywords: Chronic Diseases; Interaction; Interactive voice response; Patient Participation; Self Reports