TY - GEN
T1 - e-ESAS
T2 - 2nd ACM International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, MobileHealth'12
AU - Kawsar, Ferdaus A.
AU - Haque, Md Munirul
AU - Adibuzzaman, Mohammad
AU - Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal
AU - Uddin, Md
AU - Love, Richard
AU - Roe, David
AU - Dowla, Rumana
AU - Ferdousy, T.
AU - Selim, Reza
AU - Hossain, Syed
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we present e-ESAS, a mobile phone based remote monitoring tool for patients with palliative care need, carefully designed for developing countries. Most of the current remote monitoring systems are complex, obtrusive and expensive resulting in a system unsuitable to deploy in low-income countries. We here describe evolution and performance of e-ESAS within the contexts of breast cancer patients as these patients require management of pain and other symptoms. Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) was developed to capture the important parameters where patients themselves report their level of ten symptoms. Our e-ESAS improves the current system by reducing visits by patients to clinics, providing more flexibility to both doctors and patients, improving the quality of data, accommodating doctors to fine tune interventions, and providing a convenient representation of data to doctors. User interface was designed according to feedbacks from users resulting in a UI with better performance. The system is intended to provide a platform for future research as large amount of real data is being accumulated from the deployment. The system demonstrates the feasibility of accessing quality health care through cell phones by rural, poor patients in developing countries. The system enables doctors to serve more patients as it saves time for doctors, requiring less time to view patient information.
AB - In this paper, we present e-ESAS, a mobile phone based remote monitoring tool for patients with palliative care need, carefully designed for developing countries. Most of the current remote monitoring systems are complex, obtrusive and expensive resulting in a system unsuitable to deploy in low-income countries. We here describe evolution and performance of e-ESAS within the contexts of breast cancer patients as these patients require management of pain and other symptoms. Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) was developed to capture the important parameters where patients themselves report their level of ten symptoms. Our e-ESAS improves the current system by reducing visits by patients to clinics, providing more flexibility to both doctors and patients, improving the quality of data, accommodating doctors to fine tune interventions, and providing a convenient representation of data to doctors. User interface was designed according to feedbacks from users resulting in a UI with better performance. The system is intended to provide a platform for future research as large amount of real data is being accumulated from the deployment. The system demonstrates the feasibility of accessing quality health care through cell phones by rural, poor patients in developing countries. The system enables doctors to serve more patients as it saves time for doctors, requiring less time to view patient information.
KW - breast cancer
KW - mobile computing
KW - remote monitoring
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U2 - 10.1145/2248341.2248346
DO - 10.1145/2248341.2248346
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863553082
SN - 9781450312929
T3 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)
SP - 9
EP - 14
BT - MobileHealth'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare
Y2 - 11 June 2012 through 11 June 2012
ER -