Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Informatics, College of Engineering and Technology, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia
2. Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abstract
The explosion of wireless technologies including wireless networks, large flat displays, sensors, personal digital assistants (PDA), smartphones, and embedded devices are playing a great role in the communication and service delivery of daily life. Nowadays it is possible to extend different applications such as providing voice calls, remote consultation, remote discussion, remote health service, access other applications, and so on wirelessly to anywhere in the world over short or long distances. In consideration of the various advantages of wireless technologies, in this work, the aim to explore the use of wireless technologies in the health domain for remote health domain. The main objective of this work is to design and implement a telehealth support system that helps improve the quality of the existing health system. The system allows health professionals to have adequate access to patients, to medical information, to give health-related services remotely, remote consultation, and remote education to patients/people anywhere and anytime. This telehealth support system is developed using a Java programming language with different editions for different purposes such as J2EE to develop both server-side and client-side applications of the system, JSP to design the web interface for the server-side application of the system, J2ME CLDC/MIDP platform which ships with J2ME wireless toolkit emulator to develop and demonstrate MIDlet applications on the target small computing device, and MySQL database for data storage management.
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