An Android-Based Emergency Alarm and Healthcare Management System

AnAndroid-Based Emergency Alarm and Healthcare Management System

 

Abstract—this paper presents an emergency alarm and healthcare management system, which is mainly deployed in an android-based phone that is conveniently used and carried. So our system is suitable for most of the people. With the help of the GPS and GSM network, the system can make sure the location of the users when they are in trouble and trigger the alarm. When the doctor or family receives the alarm message, they can immediately take measures to rescue the user. It can also manage the health record of the user. The user can take online medical to send their physical condition and then get prescription from doctor who will send the prescription on theuser's phone . https://codeshoppy.com/android-projects-titles-ieee.html After that the life reminder system can remind the user to take medical on time and so on.Keywords- healthcare; emergency alarm; life reminder;healtcare management; Android 

INTRODUCTION  

Now with the growing social pressure and the life more and more quick steps, most people are facing with health problems, especially a lot of high-level personnel who are in sub-health. And modern social accidents occur frequently. It is more important to design a health security system for people. As mobile phones play more and more important role for people, it is the best choice that the system will be deployed on mobile phones. Normally, a healthcare emergency alarm system is deployed on an independent device, wired or wirelessly linked to a gateway, and then connected to the hospital or emergency center, such as [6] and [8].But the disadvantage of such systems is obvious: once getting out of the coverage of the gateway, the system won’t work anymore. A healthcare management system has two main functions. 

The one is life reminder system. The other is On-Line medical. However the life reminder function is useful and helpful for the senior people and chronic patients to give a friendly reminder for medicine and so on, such as [9]. But most of the healthcare management system is separated from the emergency alarm system, which means the users have to keep two systems at the same time. Apparently it is not convenient at all. According to these disadvantages, deploying the systems on cell phone is undoubtedly a better choice. As a carrier of emergency alarm and healthcare management system, there are some advantages for cell phone. First, the cell phone is convenient to carry. People always carry a cell phone with them, so they can trigger an alarm or get the prescription from the HIS at everywhere and everytime. 

Second, open operating systems on cell phones, such as iOS, Android and Symbian have many applications and easy to extend by developing application. Third, by the cell phone, user can make a phone call to their friends and family, and with the help of GPS chip, their location can be acquired. Finally, the phone can make fall detect by gravity sensor. For example, if an old man accidentally falls down, the phone can automatically trigger an alarm. In this paper, we choose GPhone (Google Phone) [10] as our platform. The GPhone is a smart phone just like iPhone, but based on Android [10]. 

 Figure I: The emergency system The life reminder function that is one of healthcare management's functions can help user to remind when to have medicine and some other things which we often call as doctor prescriptions. It is fairly useful for the chronic patients. Furthermore, by linking to the Hospital Information System (HIS), doctors can push directly the prescription to the reminder system for each individual patient via specific interfaces. Now mobile phones support Internet access, so when the user is not feeling well, he can log in the system, their status will be sent to the server. The server receives the user’s information and reminds the on-line doctor that the on-line user needs treatment. According to the user's conditions, doctor sends the prescription to the user's phone in order to protect the user timely to get treatment. 

After the prescription is sent to the user's mobile phone, the life reminder alerts the user to take medicine on the time and so on. The work flow is shown as Figure II: Figure II: The work flow The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section II introduces the general design and system architecture. Section III gives the detailed design and implementation of the system. Finally, Section IV and V present the user study and the conclusion respectively. 

 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

 This system consists of two parts: the client and the server. The client is deployed on an android-based cell phone. There are two parts: The Emergency Alarm and The Healthcare Management System. Both the two are Android applications. The server is deployed on a computer, which may be located in a hospital, and be operated by a doctor. It also contains two subsystems: The Emergency alarm and The Healthcare Management System. The Healthcare Management System contains the receive user medical information module and the push prescription module. The architecture is shown in Figure III.gFigure III: System Architecture As shown in Figure III, the client side consists of two parts, The Emergency Alarm and The Healthcare Management System, both of which are based on Android 2.2 system and designed for mobile devices. 

For the first part, the Emergency Alarm system is employed for user to make an emergency alarm at some emergent occasions. It has three functional components.These components work together to detect user action and make the decision of whether to start an alarm. After that, if it decides to send an alarm, the Alarm Executor will perform the alarm actions. For the second part of client, the healthcare management system can be an active reminder application to remind user to have medicines and can also be a doctor for the user. 

By linking to the HIS, the prescription can be sent by the doctor at the server side. Similarly with the client, the server has two parts. For the first one, the Emergency Alarm System is the interface between the doctor and the patient. When the Alarm Receiver receives the alarm message, it sends out the message to the Alarm Executor to perform the alarm action,for example, playing an alarm sound to inform doctors that someone has triggered the alarm. And the second part of server is the healthcare management system, allowing doctor create a prescription and push it to the client side for automatically reminding the user to take medicines or other actions as prescriptions say and see a doctor conveniently by mobile phone.