[Design of the Medical Digital Assistant for "bottom of the pyramid"]

Jie-hui Jiang; Zhuang-zhi Yan; Jun Shi

[Design of the Medical Digital Assistant for "bottom of the pyramid"]

Zhongguo Yi Liao Qi Xie Za Zhi. 2006 May;30(3):173-5, 172, 191.

[Article in Chinese]

Authors

Jie-hui Jiang¹, Zhuang-zhi Yan, Jun Shi

Affiliation

¹ School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.

PMID: 16929772

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.

Publication types

English Abstract
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer Communication Networks / instrumentation*
Computer Systems
Equipment Design
Hospital Information Systems*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation
Rural Health Services
Software Design*
Telemedicine / instrumentation*
Telemedicine / methods