@inproceedings{14e7d19dd08b420aa02470ba1af1d6e5,
title = "Mobile Healthcare System for Health Checkups and Telemedicine in Post-Disaster Situations",
abstract = "Portable Healthcare Clinic (PHC) is a mobile healthcare system comprising of medical sensors and health assessment criteria. It has been applied in Bangladesh for the last two years as a pilot program to identify non-communicable diseases. In this study, we adapted PHC to fit post-disaster conditions. The PHC health assessment criteria are redesigned to deal with emergency cases and healthcare worker insufficiency. A new algorithm makes an initial assessment of age, symptoms, and whether the person is seeing a doctor. These changes will make the turn-around time shorter and will enable reaching the most affected patients better. We tested the operability and turn-around time of the adapted system at the debris flow disaster shelters in Hiroshima, Japan. Changing the PHC health assessment criteria and other solutions such as a list of medicine preparation makes the PHC system switch into an emergency mode more smoothly following a natural disaster.",
keywords = "Paper, Medinfo 2015, Post Disaster, Public Health Informatics, Teleconsultation, eHealth, mHealth",
author = "Min Hu and Megumi Sugimoto and {Rebeiro Hargrave}, Andrew and Yasunobu Nohara and Michiko Moriyama and Ashir Ahmed and Shuji Shimizu and Naoki Nakashima",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.; 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015 ; Conference date: 19-08-2015 Through 23-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-79",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "79--83",
editor = "Andrew Georgiou and Sarkar, {Indra Neil} and {de Azevedo Marques}, {Paulo Mazzoncini}",
booktitle = "MEDINFO 2015",
address = "Netherlands",
}