Welcome To Dept. of Telemedicine and eHealth University of Tromsø Tromsø. Norway

1. Welcome To Dept. of Telemedicine and eHealth University of Tromsø Tromsø. Norway

2. A Pocket Electronic Health Diary (PeHD) FOR LOW CONNECTIVY CONTEXTS Shabbir Syed Abdul MD (MSc) University of Tromsø, Norway.

3. Graduate of St.Petersburg Medical Academy, Russia 2001 • Worked in India and Republic of Maldives as medical doctor and resident doctor. • Doing Masters degree in ’Telemedicine and eHealth’ @ University of Tromsø, • Norway • Member of ISfTeH I am Dr.Shabbir graduated from St.Petersburg Medical Academy, Russia in 2001 Worked in India and Republic of Maldives as medical officer and resident doctor Doing my Masters at University of Tromsø In Telemedicine and e Health ! Member of ISfTeH Charminar, Hyderabad, India

4. Objectives of this presentation ! • To explain what is PeHD • Who are the users and benefits to them • How does it fit in low connectivity contexts • To find collaborators • To get your valuable feedback !

5. Present Scenario • Patients commonly visit Hospital and GP without previous medical record • Incomplete or very old or illegible handwriting • Colour of the tablets (red or white) • Each hospital admission creates new Pt record of same Pt. • In the middle of an emergency, there’s no room for errors

6. Electronic Health RecordHow important? • Do you want me to remember my medical history? • Do you want me to remember all my current medication? SOLUTION 

7. PeHD • It is a portable, decentralized, patient centric, medical record which provides an organised summary of personal medical information for presentation to health care providers • It is multifunctional and multipurpose, includes text, images, sounds, and other multimedia content. • It not only supports doctors to have access to the patients’ medical records, but also for Hospital treatment purposes, Government bodies for statistical purposes, and research purposes.

8. PeHD Specifications • 1 Gb memory portable device + same copy of data stored in server. • Software with different interfaces for input and displaying data • Public Data: Chronic disease, medication, contact number • Private Data: medical information, personal notes (complaints to Doctor) • Data base of medical record with link to server URL & Synchron. facility

9. Benefits for Patients : • Consumers can recheck medication schedules for confirming review date, investigation date and vaccination date. • They can access their medication list and purchase same drug and dose. • They can receive lab results directly to their PeHD via server.

10. Benefits for Health Carers (Doctors / Nurses / Lab Tech...): • Doctors can access the PeHD which will avoid repeating investigation done before, saving time for diagnosing and work load for lab technicians. • Contact electronically for second opinion. • Nurses can access the PeHD if the patient is admitted in the hospital and review patient history regarding previous treatment and list of medications.

11. Benefits for Hospitals offering PeHD : • Get more new clients • These hospitals can approach new patient markets • Hospital can negotiate with a Health Insurance company

12. PeHD different Interfaces

13. Future Work • Step by step approach • Disease specific PeHD • Searching for interested collaborating partners for future projects drshabbir786@gmail.com • Questions?

14. THANK YOU