Title
Development of a Medical Tele-Management System for Post-Discharge Patients of Chronic Diseases in Resource-Constrained Settings.
Abstract
Medical tele-management is an emerging field of study in telemedicine that proposes an interactive and proactive disease management approach which combines tele-monitoring and tele-consultation services through an information and communications technology (ICT) supported partnership. On one hand, chronic diseases require frequent and continuous monitoring to avoid complications; on the other hand is the need for a platform where health workers in rural settlements can consult or interact with their counterparts in urban areas to reduce isolation. However, telemedicine systems exist singly either as tele-monitoring or tele-consultation systems or majorly in developed countries with dedicated and adequate ICT resources and infrastructure. This work developed a combined tele-monitoring and tele-consultation system for the management of chronic diseases within an information and communication technology resource-constrained setting. This is achieved through the development of a multi-tiered framework and model deployed to provide medical tele-management services for rural African communities. The developed system achieved reliability score, availability, uptime and downtime of 0.9, 99.65%, 99.65% and 0.21% respectively. The evaluation results of the post-implementation task revealed that response means of 4.20 and 4.22 were achieved for the system degree of relevance (SDR) and system ease of use (SEU), respectively on a rating scale of 1 to 5.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Computers and Society
Telemedicine,Computer science,Usability,Knowledge management,Continuous monitoring,Information and Communications Technology,Rural settlement,General partnership,Management system,Downtime,Operations management
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Journal
abs/1809.00348
International Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, Volume 6 No. 4 (2018)
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elizabeth A. Amusan100.34
Justice Emuoyibofarhe243.03
Tayo O. Arulogun300.34