MESUDD: towards a multi-lingua expert system for rural m-healthcare.
MESUDD: towards a multi-lingua expert system for rural m-healthcare.
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DOI：
10.1504/ijeh.2012.049875
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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Olamoyegun, Michael Adeyemi
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作者：
Oladosu, John Babalola;Olamoyegun, Michael Adeyemi
通过研究工作，已经产生了大量用于医疗保健服务的应用程序和硬件设备。然而，针对移动设备实施的现有系统的一个关键限制是，它们没有充分解决语言障碍、难以获得医疗从业者、成本限制以及发展中国家和不发达国家农村社区特有的其他挑战。本文介绍了我们在研究工作中开发的解决方案之一，旨在解决现有系统的上述一些局限性。这项工作开发了一种新颖的移动软件工具，可以为不识字的土著患者提供实时语言翻译，以便通过小型移动计算设备与医疗专家系统进行交互，以便在没有医生的情况下进行诊断和开药。该工具的可用性评估是由医生、护理人员和患者参与进行的。评估结果已提交。
A good number of applications and hardware devices for healthcare services have been produced through research efforts. A key limitation of the existing systems that are implemented for mobile devices, however, is that they have not adequately addressed language barrier, deplorable access to medical practitioners, cost constraints among other challenges peculiar to rural communities in developing and underdeveloped countries. This paper presents one of the solutions developed in our research efforts at addressing some of the aforementioned limitations of the existing systems. The work produced a novel mobile software tool that addresses the provisioning of real-time language translation for illiterate indigenous patients to interact with a medical expert system via a small mobile computing device for diagnoses and drug prescription where there is no doctor. Usability assessment of the tool was conducted by engaging physicians, paramedics and patients. The result of that assessment is presented.