An Android-Based Emergency Alarm and Healthcare Management System
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.
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