Non-Prescription Medicine Mobile Healthcare Application: Smartphone-Based Software Design and Development Review

Thinnukool, Orawit; Khuwuthyakorn, Pattaraporn; Wientong, Purida

doi:10.3991/ijim.v11i5.7123

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“…The use of systems based on smartphones facilitates the effective tracking and managing of patients' health [1,2,18,19]. A variety of research that has been conducted in relation to applications associated with emergency cases will be discussed in this section.…”

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Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol

Sutham

Khuwuthyakorn

Thinnukool

2020

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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Background: Before patients are admitted into the emergency department, it is important to undertake a prehospital process, both in terms of treatment performance and a request for resources from an emergency unit. The existing system to triage patients in Thailand is not functioning to its full capacity in either the primary medical system or pre-hospital treatment with shortcomings in the areas of speed, features, and appropriate systems. There is a high possibility of issuing a false Initial Dispatch Code (IDC), which will cause the over or underutilisation of emergency resources, such as rescue teams, community hospitals and emergency medical volunteers. Methods: A usability system design, together with a reliability test, was applied to develop an application to optimise the pre-hospital process, specifically to sort patients, using an IDC to improve the request for emergency resources. The triage mobile application was developed on both iOS and Android operating systems to support patient triage based on Criteria Based Dispatch (CBD). The 25 main symptom categories covered by CBD were used to design and develop the application, and 12 emergency medical staff, including doctors and nurses, were asked to test the system in the aspects of triage protocol correction, triage reliability, usability and user satisfaction. Results: The results of testing the proposed triage application were compared with the time used to triage by experienced staff and it was found that, in non-trauma cases, it was faster and more effective to use the application for emergency operations and to correct the IDC code representation. Conclusions: The triage application will be utilised to support the pre-hospital process and to classify patients' conditions before they are admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). The application is suitable for users who are not medical emergency staff. Patients with non-trauma symptoms may be a suitable group to use the application in terms of time used to identify IDC for their own symptoms. The use of the application can be beneficial for those who wish to self-identify their symptoms before requesting medical services.

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Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol

Sutham

Khuwuthyakorn

Thinnukool

2020

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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“…Patient cannot buy medicines without any consultation of the doctor. Pharmacist cannot provide medicines without a doctor's prescription [17]. For users who do not use the mobile application can access the application using the webpage on mobile devices or even on the computer.…”

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Authentic Drug Usage and Tracking with Blockchain Using Mobile Apps

Murugamantham

et al. 2020

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<span>Tracking drugs became more difficult using the centralized architecture. Decentralized architecture using blockchain technology overcomes the difficulties faced by the centralized network like availability and recovery. Avoiding duplicate or fake drugs created by fake manufacturers is a big challenge in the centralized network. Authentic stock is managed and the supply chain is tracked efficiently using this blockchain technology. This is addressed by using the smart contract which helps to track the movement of drugs from manufacturer to supplier, supplier to the reseller, reseller to pharmacies and finally pharmacies to patient. By default, duplicate drugs or fake drugs are completely avoided by using the blockchain technology. Patients buy drugs without any prescription and it creates a lot of problems in real life. So, Patients cannot buy drugs without authenticated doctor’s prescriptions with the help of a QR Code scanner attached with the prescription which will be implemented using a mobile application and cannot buy excess drugs which might lose someone’s life. With the help of inventory management, the maximum limit of drugs to avoid overdose and pharmacies cannot sell those overdose drugs. Consulting a doctor before buying a drug for even a simple illness is important and it is tracked by using prescriptions provided by authentic doctors. In this project, these challenges are addressed using the smart contract which is written in solidity language and runs on a public ethereum network.</span>

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“…Using the systems based on smartphones has allowed effective tracking and managing of patients' health [18][19][20][21]. A variety of research has been conducted related to applications associated with emergency cases and will be discussed in this section.…”

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Thailand Medical Mobile Application for Patients Triage Base on Criteria Based Dispatch Protocol

Sutham

Khuwuthyakorn

Thinnukool

2020

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Background : Before admitting patients into the emergency department, the pre-hospital process is important both in terms of treatment performance and requesting resources from an emergency unit. The existing system to triage patients in Thailand is not functioning optimally in either the primary medical system or pre-hospital treatment. Areas that contain shortcomings include speed, features, and appropriate systems. There is a high possibility of misrepresenting false Initial Dispatch Code (IDC) which causes over or under utilizing emergency resources, such as rescue teams, community hospitals and emergency medical volunteers. Methods : In the application development, usability system design has been applied together with system reliability test, to optimize the pre-hospital processes specifically to sort patients by using IDC improving request for emergency resources. The development of a triage mobile application has been conducted on both iOS and Android operating systems to support patient triage based on the Criteria Based Dispatch (CBD). The 25 main symptom categories covered by CBD were used to design and develop the application, and 12 emergency medical staff including doctors and nurses were subjected to test the system in the following aspects: triage protocol correction, triage reliability, usability and user satisfaction. Results : The application development result shows the comparison between the proposed triage application and staff experience. The triage reliability test implies that the time used to triage by experienced staff, in non-trauma cases, is slower than using the application. For the usability test, the result shows that the application functions are more effective in the emergency operations and correction of IDC code representation. Conclusions : The triage application will be utilized to support the pre-hospital process and to classify patient conditions before admitting patients to the Emergency Department (ED). The application is suitable for users who are not medical emergency staff. Patients with non-trauma symptoms may be a suitable group to use the application in terms of time used to identify IDC for their own symptoms. In terms of application use, it can provide benefits to those who want to self-identify their symptoms before requesting medical services.

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Non-Prescription Medicine Mobile Healthcare Application: Smartphone-Based Software Design and Development Review

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Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol

Thailand medical mobile application for patients triage base on criteria based dispatch protocol

Authentic Drug Usage and Tracking with Blockchain Using Mobile Apps

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