Medical Social Media Systems - Implementation of the Android Application

Abstract

The use of cutting-edge technologies such as the smartphones, smart bracelets, social media, and m-Health, and also mobile applications has begun to increase in medicinal services areas, due to factors such as the low cost, usability, mobility, multiple uses, and being reliable. This encouraged health institutions to increase their investment in healthcare technologies. This article presents the implementation of an integrated architecture for a mobile healthcare system, which is called Medical social media system. This system integrates wearable sensors, smartphones, and oriented social media, so as to enhance the healthcare services in the Iraqi environment. The system can be used by smartphones, running on the Android system and smart-watches. In addition, the website can be utilized by devices like desktops, notebooks, tablets, and smartphones which can be utilized maximally for data collection and analysis via user-system interactivity, utilizes wearable sensors, smartphones that automatically collect life activities information, such as exercises information like heart rate, the breathing rate, and body temperature. In order to provide healthcare services to patients, and medical workers in the Iraqi healthcare sector, the infrastructure still needs to significantly develop, and medical information needs to be shared amidst medical workers and to individuals in general. Moreover, it has been designed to store collected data in a database and to be able to produce reports to users.