Design and implementation of mobile health consultation between doctors and diabetes patient

Abstract

In general, consultation among doctor and patient is done by the patient went to the doctor in real situation. Therefore, patients must provide time and cost to consult with a physician. Nowadays, everybody can communicate with one another by use smart phone through internet connection. Particularly in Indonesia, nearly 54% people use the internet and mostly of them use the internet by phone or smart phone. Because this phenomena, this research has purposed to designed consultation system among doctor and patient by using smart phone through internet connection. The consultation can be done in anytime, anywhere since we connect with internet connection. In this research, we choose the specific patient. We pick diabetes patient because in Indonesia, the number of diabetes patients has the fourth highest ranking in the world according from WHO database.