Design of the Medical Digital Assistant for "bottom of the pyramid".
- Author:
Jie-hui JIANG
1
;
Zhuang-zhi YAN
;
Jun SHI
Author Information
1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Computer Communication Networks;
instrumentation;
Computer Systems;
Equipment Design;
Hospital Information Systems;
Humans;
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted;
instrumentation;
Rural Health Services;
Software Design;
Telemedicine;
instrumentation;
methods
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
2006;30(3):173-191
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
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.
