TY - GEN
T1 - GramHealth
T2 - 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
AU - Ahmed, Ashir
AU - Kabir, Lutfe
AU - Kai, Eiko
AU - Inoue, Sozo
PY - 2013/10/31
Y1 - 2013/10/31
N2 - Insufficient healthcare facilities and unavailability of medical experts in rural areas are the two major reasons that kept the people unreached to healthcare services. Recent penetration of mobile phone and the demand to basic healthcare services, remote health consultancy over mobile phone became popular in developing countries. In this paper, we introduce two such representative initiatives from Bangladesh and discuss the technical challenges they face to serve a remote patient. To solve these issues, we have prototyped a box with necessary diagnostic tools, we call it a 'portable clinic' and a software tool, 'GramHealth' for managing the patient information. We carried out experiments in three villages in Bangladesh to observe the usability of the portable clinic and verify the functionality of 'GramHealth'. We display the qualitative analysis of the results obtained from the experiment. GramHealth DB has a unique combination of structured, semi-structured and un-structured data. We are currently looking at these data to see whether these can be treated as BigData and if yes, how to analyze the data and what to expect from these data to make a better clinical decision support.
AB - Insufficient healthcare facilities and unavailability of medical experts in rural areas are the two major reasons that kept the people unreached to healthcare services. Recent penetration of mobile phone and the demand to basic healthcare services, remote health consultancy over mobile phone became popular in developing countries. In this paper, we introduce two such representative initiatives from Bangladesh and discuss the technical challenges they face to serve a remote patient. To solve these issues, we have prototyped a box with necessary diagnostic tools, we call it a 'portable clinic' and a software tool, 'GramHealth' for managing the patient information. We carried out experiments in three villages in Bangladesh to observe the usability of the portable clinic and verify the functionality of 'GramHealth'. We display the qualitative analysis of the results obtained from the experiment. GramHealth DB has a unique combination of structured, semi-structured and un-structured data. We are currently looking at these data to see whether these can be treated as BigData and if yes, how to analyze the data and what to expect from these data to make a better clinical decision support.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609838
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609838
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 24110025
AN - SCOPUS:84886493021
SN - 9781457702167
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 1668
EP - 1671
BT - 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
Y2 - 3 July 2013 through 7 July 2013
ER -