TY - GEN
T1 - Portable health clinic
T2 - 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019
AU - Islam, Rafiqul
AU - Nohara, Yasunobu
AU - Rahman, Md Jiaur
AU - Sultana, Nazneen
AU - Ahmed, Ashir
AU - Nakashima, Naoki
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by Grameen Communications of Bangladesh and Kyushu University of Japan. The authors sincerely acknowledge the contribution from both the sides.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.
PY - 2019/8/21
Y1 - 2019/8/21
N2 - The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavors to take healthcare facilities along with remote doctors' consultancy to the doorsteps of the unreached people using an advanced telemedicine system. Thus, the necessity of having physical healthcare peripheries specially in the developing countries can be mitigated. The PHC system promotes preventive healthcare by encouraging regular health checkups so that diseases can be prevented as well as their severity can be mitigated, leading to a reduction on healthcare expenses. Thus, the number of patients along with excessive workload on existing healthcare human resources can be minimized. The current project in rural Bangladesh alone has served more than 41,000 people so far by the PHC system and a simple analysis of this data shows some significant findings on regional health status. A simple expansion of this program, covering a wider service area, can produce a big data to reflect the whole country`s health profile.
AB - The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavors to take healthcare facilities along with remote doctors' consultancy to the doorsteps of the unreached people using an advanced telemedicine system. Thus, the necessity of having physical healthcare peripheries specially in the developing countries can be mitigated. The PHC system promotes preventive healthcare by encouraging regular health checkups so that diseases can be prevented as well as their severity can be mitigated, leading to a reduction on healthcare expenses. Thus, the number of patients along with excessive workload on existing healthcare human resources can be minimized. The current project in rural Bangladesh alone has served more than 41,000 people so far by the PHC system and a simple analysis of this data shows some significant findings on regional health status. A simple expansion of this program, covering a wider service area, can produce a big data to reflect the whole country`s health profile.
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U2 - 10.3233/SHTI190296
DO - 10.3233/SHTI190296
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31437997
AN - SCOPUS:85071492883
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 616
EP - 619
BT - MEDINFO 2019
A2 - Seroussi, Brigitte
A2 - Ohno-Machado, Lucila
A2 - Ohno-Machado, Lucila
A2 - Seroussi, Brigitte
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 25 August 2019 through 30 August 2019
ER -
