MedCare4Home: A Mobile Medical System for Families
Mengting Wang, Yen Le, Chen-Hsiang Yu · 2023
Managing healthcare data is essential for everyone, but it can be challenging and time-consuming. Although several Web and mobile applications existed for personal medical record management, there were few home-based, family-oriented solutions. In this research, we proposed to design an easy-to-use solution for a family. We designed and implemented an innovative Home Medical Care System, MedCare4Home, by deploying a MERN stack Web application to a minicomputer, Raspberry Pi 4, and enabling a local network to connect different devices at home. The users can access the Web application using either a desktop, tablet, mobile phone, or simply a 7-inch LCD touchscreen. MedCare4Home not only allows users to keep track of appointments and organize healthcare documents, but it can also help set up medication reminders and provide a self-report interface for symptom collection for family members easily and securely in one place. The final developed system demonstrated that we achieved the original goal and beyond. We expect to extend our current hardware design and software development to support physiological data collection with external sensors in the future.