Android Mobile Health Application (mHealth) System

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to come up with a Mobile health (m-Health) application system.

This system allows patients’ to communicate directly via an android mobile system through

notifications or messages and at the same time enables them to perform electronic booking of

appointments, receive e-prescription and accessing after visit summaries from the hospital or

clinic. The development of this system comes out after the identification of numerous problems

which are associated with the current system. The different types of information gathering

techniques were used to unveil these problems. Techniques which were used are interviews,

questionnaires and observations. The results obtained shed light that there is need of a new system

in the organization. This system was developed using Android and Php, after it was implemented

the system was reviewed to check whether it is performing up to standard, the results from the

users were positive which means it was successful. To conclude, Android mobile health system

(m-health) was greatly appreciated at the organization, this at the same time calls for the future

advancement of the system.

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