Mobile healthcare locator system for heart patients (MHLSHP)
Mardziah Shameem Abdul Rashid, Norlia Mustaffa, Pantea Keikhosrokiani · 2016
Healthcare has become a vital issue in today's world. As the population increases, the necessity for healthcare services also increase which includes healthcare for heart patients. Heart diseases have become one of the leading causes of death. We have to take the correct precaution beforehand in order to avoid problems later on in future. Nowadays, many people are not willing to seek for medical help until their heart related conditions has worsened. Thus, Mobile Healthcare Locator System for Heart Patients (MMHLSHP) is proposed with the intention to save the patients in critical situations as w ell as m improve healthcare services for heart patients during emergency. The objective of MHLSHP is mainly tr track and show the patient's current location and to locate the nearest healthcare point, and assist in reaching to the nearest Emergency Center (EC) to seek for medical help. The location coordinates of the healthcare points can be retrieved by Global Positioning System (GPS). Using location-based services (LBS), it will provide us the exact locations of the nearest healthcare center. This paper provider the system design and architecture for MHLSHIP together with system and unit tests of the proposed system. The results indicate that MHLSHP is indeed a beneficial emergency locator system, which will enable the critical heart patients or their caregiver to locate the nearest healthcare points and inform the nearest emergency centers. The notification on emergencies will be relayed to the EC, in order for them to take immediate actions, for example, sending an ambulance to the patient's current location. The design of the proposed system can provide useful prospect for healthcare providers to enhance and develop such kind of healthcare system for heart patients.