Design and prototypical implementation of a mobile healthcare application : health express
Abstract
Bangladesh has made significant progress to achieve millennium development
goals on many frontiers. However the task is not finished yet and the country can
overhaul the service quality of its healthcare sector taking assistance of various
mobile based information technology tools. It is a common problem in many parts
of Bangladesh that unregistered doctors taking advantage of people’s ignorance
provide medical consultation services. While such practice can inflict serious
medical damages to the person being treated, hence it must stop. In order to
help general public from mistakenly seeking medical consultation from an
unregistered doctor we have tried to implement a prototypical mobile health care
application that combines the possibilities to search nearest registered doctor,
pharmacy, diagnostic centre, clinic and hospital. This application can also facilitate
e-prescription transmission among doctors, patients and other relevant
stakeholders. This paper describes the requirements for such a system, details its
implementation. An in-depth literature review of the topics of mHealth and
software engineering challenges to develop mobile application were also
conducted to achieve the objectives of this paper.