Empowering Self-Management through M-Health Applications

Muhaini Othman,R Mohamed,Mohd Hafizul Afifi Abdullah,Norhafizah Mohd Halil,M Mohd Yusof,S.A Aljunid,M.A.A Mohd Salleh,K.N.F Ku Azir,C.B.M Rashidi,P.J Soh

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201815005018

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005018

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Abstract

The advancement in mobile technology has led towards a new frontier of medical intervention that never been thought possible before. Through the development of MedsBox Reminder (MBR) application for Android as a pilot project of M-Health, health care information system for patient selfmanagement is made possible. The application acts as an assistant to remind users for their timely medicine intake by notifying them through their mobile phone. MedsBox Reminder application aims to facilitate in the self-management of patient's health where they can monitor and schedule their own medicine intake more efficiently. Development of the application is performed using Android Studio 1.4, Android SDK, MySQL database, SQLite, Java language and Netbeans IDE 8.1. Object-Oriented System Development (OOSD) methodology has been adapted to facilitate the development of the application.

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Non-communicable disease such as diabetic, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and hypertension continues to increase in the communities worldwide [1]
The methodology used for the development of MedsBox Reminder application is Object-Oriented System Development (OOSD) which consists of four phases: i) object-oriented requirement analysis, ii) object-oriented design, iii) object-oriented implementation, and iv) object-oriented testing
Unified Modelling Languages (UML) are used as a method of designing activities involved in MedsBox Reminder which consists of use cases, sequence diagrams and class activity diagrams

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Non-communicable disease such as diabetic, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and hypertension continues to increase in the communities worldwide [1]. And close relatives could act as a mediator for patients in monitoring their health. Most patients are elderly people, who tend to ignore their schedule medicine intake and could result in a severe health relapse. There is abundance of advertisement of health awareness and mobile applications has been developed that improve the living condition, without a proper health management system to monitor and intervene patients the quality of life is decreased [2]. Toward empowering people in selfmanagement of their health and manage their long-term illnesses conditions systematically, patients must have access to a timely information, advice, assessment, and treatment from the medical practitioners [3]. The progressive growth of mobile technology, social networking and medical applications made selfmanagement of health and awareness possible

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