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Welcome
To
Dept. of Telemedicine and eHealth
University of Tromsø
Tromsø. Norway
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A Pocket Electronic Health Diary (PeHD)
FOR
LOW CONNECTIVY CONTEXTS
Shabbir Syed Abdul MD (MSc)
University of Tromsø, Norway.
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I am• Graduate
Dr.Shabbir
graduated from
St.Petersburg
of St.Petersburg
Medical
Academy, Russia 2001
Medical Academy, Russia in 2001
• Worked in India and Republic of Maldives as medical doctor and resident doctor.
Worked in India and Republic of Maldives as
• Doing
Masters
’Telemedicine and eHealth’ @ University of Tromsø,
medical
officer
and degree
residentindoctor
Norway
Doing my Masters at University of Tromsø
• Member of ISfTeH
In Telemedicine and e Health !
Member of ISfTeH
Charminar, Hyderabad, India
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Objectives of this presentation !
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To explain what is PeHD
Who are the users and benefits to them
How does it fit in low connectivity
contexts
To find collaborators
To get your valuable feedback !
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Present Scenario
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Patients commonly visit Hospital and GP without
previous medical record
Incomplete or very old or illegible handwriting
 Colour of the tablets (red or white)
 Each hospital admission creates new Pt record
of same Pt.
 In the middle of an emergency, there’s no room
for errors
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Electronic Health Record
How important?
• Do you want me to
remember my medical
history?
• Do you want me to
remember all my
current medication?
SOLUTION 
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PeHD
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It is a portable, decentralized, patient centric, medical
record which provides an organised summary of
personal medical information for presentation to
health care providers
 It is multifunctional and multipurpose, includes text,
images, sounds, and other multimedia content.
 It not only supports doctors to have access to the
patients’ medical records, but also for Hospital
treatment purposes, Government bodies for statistical
purposes, and research purposes.
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PeHD
Encrypted
Private Data
Login/Password
Protected Data
Public Data
Specifications
• 1 Gb memory portable device + same copy of data stored in server.
• Software with different interfaces for input and displaying data
• Public Data: Chronic disease, medication, contact number
• Private Data: medical information, personal notes (complaints to Doctor)
• Data base of medical record with link to server URL & Synchron. facility
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Benefits for Patients :
 Consumers
can recheck medication
schedules for confirming review date,
investigation date and vaccination date.
 They can access their medication list and
purchase same drug and dose.
 They can receive lab results directly to
their PeHD via server.
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Benefits for Health Carers
(Doctors / Nurses / Lab Tech...):
 Doctors
can access the PeHD which will
avoid repeating investigation done before,
saving time for diagnosing and work load
for lab technicians.
 Contact electronically for second opinion.
 Nurses can access the PeHD if the patient
is admitted in the hospital and review
patient history regarding previous
treatment and list of medications.
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Benefits for Hospitals offering
PeHD :
 Get
more new clients
 These
hospitals can approach new patient
markets
 Hospital
can negotiate with a Health
Insurance company
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Nursing Home
Pe H D
PeHD Server
Synchro.
Hospital
PeHD different
Interfaces
Pharmacy
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Future Work
 Step
by step approach
 Disease specific PeHD
 Searching for interested collaborating
partners for future projects
[email protected]
 Questions?
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