A FRAME WORK FOR LIVE MOBILE HEALTH MANAGEMENT/ CARE SYSTEM FOR DISEASES IN NIGERIA

Oguntimilehin, A. and Ademola, E.O. (2014) A FRAME WORK FOR LIVE MOBILE HEALTH MANAGEMENT/ CARE SYSTEM FOR DISEASES IN NIGERIA. In: International Conference on Science, Technology, Education, Arts, Management and Social Sciences, May, 2014, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria,.

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Abstract

Health challenges are increasing daily while the ratio of health practitioners and available facilities to the teeming population is decreasing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is in shortage of more thanfour million health workers which has posed a problem to the existence of man. These are among the major reasons why computer (Information Technology (IT)) has been employed over the years to help in different areas of health care- diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and medical records. It is very obvious that most of these computer based health related systems lack among other things the real time live interaction between health practitioners and patients. Mobile applications are now increasingly popular, though used mostly for instant messaging and social networking. In this paper we have proposed the use of mobile application to improve health care delivery system in Nigeria withreal-time live chatting mode similar to the instant social chatting where diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients canbe done through mobile technology. While readers’ attention was drawn to this, a framework of the proposed system was developed for health practitioners and researchers to look into so as to move Nigeria forward in the health sector.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Healthcare, IT, Telemedicine, Mobile Technology, Diagnosis, Treatment.
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Mr. Victor Sebiotimo
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2019 14:17
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2019 14:17
URI: http://eprints.abuad.edu.ng/id/eprint/332

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