Title: Design and architecture of real time web-centric tele health diabetes diagnosis expert system

Authors: P.M. Beula Devamalar, V. Thulasi Bai, S.K. Srivatsa

Addresses: Bharath University, Chennai – 600073, India; Department of Computer Science Engineering, Sri Sairam Engineering College, Sai Leo Nagar, Poonthandalam, Chennai, 600 044, India. ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai-600044, India. ' St. Josephs College of Engineering, Chennai-600119, India

Abstract: This paper presents design and architecture of real time web-centric tele health diabetes diagnosis expert system. Diabetes is the single most important metabolic disease, which can affect nearly every organ system in the body. It has been projected that 300 million individuals would be afflicted with diabetes by the year 2025. However, access to medical care is sometimes very difficult for people living in rural and underserved areas. They have to trek long distances for a medical diagnosis. Even if medical facilities are available in urban areas, due to lack of time due to work schedule, time taken to go in for this comprehensive procedures of getting appointment and spending a whole day in the labs for screening are a woeful experience for many and in some cases, the elderly people may have no one to take them to the hospital for screening. We propose a medical network based on state-of-the-art medical kiosk that addresses the problems of providing preventive and diagnostic healthcare. This paper presents a web-centric diabetic expert system kiosk that is similar to a bank ATM.

Keywords: diabetes; web-centric; diabetic expert systems; medical kiosks; telehealth server; diagnostic healthcare; telemedicine; internet; medical engineering; healthcare; medical diagnosis; preventive healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2009.022642

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2009 Vol.1 No.3, pp.307 - 317

Published online: 22 Jan 2009 *

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