Abstract—this paper presents an
emergency alarm and healthcare management system, which is mainly deployed in
an android-based phone that is conveniently used and carried. So our system is
suitable for most of the people. With the help of the GPS and GSM network, the
system can make sure the location of the users when they are in trouble and
trigger the alarm. When the doctor or family receives the alarm message, they
can immediately take measures to rescue the user. It can also manage the health
record of the user. The user can take online medical to send their physical
condition and then get prescription from doctor who will send the prescription
on theuser's phone . Learn More After that the life reminder system can remind the user to
take medical on time and so on.Keywords- healthcare; emergency alarm; life
reminder;healtcare management; Android
INTRODUCTION
Now with the growing social pressure and the life more and
more quick steps, most people are facing with health problems, especially a lot
of high-level personnel who are in sub-health. And modern social accidents
occur frequently. It is more important to design a health security system for
people. As mobile phones play more and more important role for people, it is
the best choice that the system will be deployed on mobile phones. Normally, a
healthcare emergency alarm system is deployed on an independent device, wired
or wirelessly linked to a gateway, and then connected to the hospital or
emergency center, such as [6] and [8].But the disadvantage of such systems is
obvious: once getting out of the coverage of the gateway, the system won’t work
anymore. A healthcare management system has two main functions.
The one is life
reminder system. The other is On-Line medical. However the life reminder
function is useful and helpful for the senior people and chronic patients to
give a friendly reminder for medicine and so on, such as [9]. But most of the
healthcare management system is separated from the emergency alarm system,
which means the users have to keep two systems at the same time. Apparently it
is not convenient at all. According to these disadvantages, deploying the
systems on cell phone is undoubtedly a better choice. As a carrier of emergency
alarm and healthcare management system, there are some advantages for cell
phone. First, the cell phone is convenient to carry. People always carry a cell
phone with them, so they can trigger an alarm or get the prescription from the
HIS at everywhere and everytime.
Second, open operating systems on cell phones,
such as iOS, Android and Symbian have many applications and easy to extend by
developing application. Third, by the cell phone, user can make a phone call to
their friends and family, and with the help of GPS chip, their location can be
acquired. Finally, the phone can make fall detect by gravity sensor. For
example, if an old man accidentally falls down, the phone can automatically
trigger an alarm. In this paper, we choose GPhone (Google Phone) [10] as our
platform. The GPhone is a smart phone just like iPhone, but based on Android [10].
Figure
I: The emergency system The life reminder function that is one of healthcare
management's functions can help user to remind when to have medicine and some
other things which we often call as doctor prescriptions. It is fairly useful
for the chronic patients. Furthermore, by linking to the Hospital Information
System (HIS), doctors can push directly the prescription to the reminder system
for each individual patient via specific interfaces. Now mobile phones support
Internet access, so when the user is not feeling well, he can log in the
system, their status will be sent to the server. The server receives the user’s
information and reminds the on-line doctor that the on-line user needs
treatment. According to the user's conditions, doctor sends the prescription to
the user's phone in order to protect the user timely to get treatment.
After
the prescription is sent to the user's mobile phone, the life reminder alerts
the user to take medicine on the time and so on. The work flow is shown as
Figure II: Figure II: The work flow The rest of the paper is organized as
follows. Section II introduces the general design and system architecture.
Section III gives the detailed design and implementation of the system.
Finally, Section IV and V present the user study and the conclusion
respectively.
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
This
system consists of two parts: the client and the server. The client is deployed
on an android-based cell phone. There are two parts: The Emergency Alarm and
The Healthcare Management System. Both the two are Android applications. The
server is deployed on a computer, which may be located in a hospital, and be
operated by a doctor. It also contains two subsystems: The Emergency alarm and
The Healthcare Management System. The Healthcare Management System contains the
receive user medical information module and the push prescription module. The
architecture is shown in Figure III.gFigure III: System Architecture As shown
in Figure III, the client side consists of two parts, The Emergency Alarm and
The Healthcare Management System, both of which are based on Android 2.2 system
and designed for mobile devices.
For the first part, the Emergency Alarm system
is employed for user to make an emergency alarm at some emergent occasions. It
has three functional components.These components work together to detect user
action and make the decision of whether to start an alarm. After that, if it
decides to send an alarm, the Alarm Executor will perform the alarm actions.
For the second part of client, the healthcare management system can be an
active reminder application to remind user to have medicines and can also be a
doctor for the user.
By linking to the HIS, the prescription can be sent by the
doctor at the server side. Similarly with the client, the server has two parts.
For the first one, the Emergency Alarm System is the interface between the
doctor and the patient. When the Alarm Receiver receives the alarm message, it
sends out the message to the Alarm Executor to perform the alarm action,for
example, playing an alarm sound to inform doctors that someone has triggered
the alarm. And the second part of server is the healthcare management system,
allowing doctor create a prescription and push it to the client side for
automatically reminding the user to take medicines or other actions as
prescriptions say and see a doctor conveniently by mobile phone. 