Telehealth Support System Using Wireless Technologies: The Case of Ethiopia
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2014-02
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The explosion of wireless technologies including wireless networks, large flat displays, sensors,
personal digital assistants (PDA), smart phones, and embedded devices are playing a great role in
communication and service delivery of our daily life. Nowadays it is possible to extend different
applications such as providing voice calls, remote consultation, remote discussion, remote health
service, access different applications, and so on wirelessly to anywhere in the world over short or
long distances.
In consideration of various advantages of wireless technologies, in this work we aim to explore
the use of wireless technologies in health domain for remote health education. The main
objective of this work is to design and implement a telehealth support system which helps to
improve the quality of existing health system. The system allows the health professionals to have
adequate access to patients, to medical information, to give health related services remotely,
remote consultation, and remote education to patients/peoples anywhere and anytime.
The telehealth support system is developed using java programming language with J2ME
CLDC/MIDP platform which ships with J2ME wireless toolkit emulator and MySQL database
for data storage management.
Keywords: Telehealth, Telemedicine, Telecare, Health Education, Ethiopia, Wireless
Technology.
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Telehealth, Telemedicine, Telecare, Health Education, Ethiopia, Wireless Technology.