Mobile Computing Enabled Knowledge Based Maternity Care And Follow Up System

Abstract

This study is about using a mobile phone of maternal mothers for communicating their daily status with maternal health professionals in health stations, health centers and hospitals. This study is an M-health system categorized under patient monitoring integrated with decision support system. The communication is established using a mobile phone containing checklists of every possible symptom which occur at a specific time in the prenatal and postnatal periods. Each pregnant mother sends and gets information specific to her status. Collection of these symptoms sent from the mother is used in health institution side for decision making supported by knowledge based system. The decisions include making appointments, going to the nearby health institution for vital signs check-up, an emergency message for a fast reaction, simple advices…etc. The process starts when a woman is identified to be pregnant and ends 2 years after delivery. This system is developed for android based mobile phones using Android Development Kit. Generally, there are two results after implementation of this study. The first one is minimizing the death of maternal mothers. The second one is minimizing lifelong health problems resulted from pregnancy.