Abstract:
Being a third world country, Pakistan is faced with a lot of problems. One of them is the mismanagements of medical cases and misdiagnosis of patients. Due to insufficient resources, a lot of patients never get treated timely, which results in a lot of deaths. The case under consideration is that of Dengue, which is considered an epidemic disease and results in a number of casualties every year. In order to deal with this issue, we have come up with a solution which would not only help diagnose the patients timely but would also help the doctors to give more attention to the more critical cases so that precious lives could be saved.
The solution comprises of an android application, which would allow the user to enter their medical details into it (i.e. the medical parameters and vitals from the hardware sensor device) and check the results of the diagnosis of whether or not they have Dengue or not. The application also consists of a chatbot facility which would facilitate in recording the medical history of the patient, thus reducing the history taking time of the doctor. All this information will be stored in a database from where the doctors can easily retrieve this information and put it to use for treatment of the patient. At the moment, there is no such application available that provides all these facilities in a compact app so TeleDoc app is expected to be really helpful in this regard.
If adopted at large, this application can be used by the doctors and nurses in hospitals for recording the patients’ vitals and getting accurate diagnosis results quickly. The patients can also use this app to converse with the chatbot and frequently record their history to the bot.
Since the chatbot module’s conversation is in English language at the moment, in the future it can be changed to work in Urdu and other local languages to help the users more affectively and make them converse in a language they are more accustomed too. Also, the expert system for the app can be trained for other diseases as well so that patients can be treated for more than one disease.
