Paper

Mobile Aid for Haemophilia Injury Recognition


Authors:
Richard K. Lomotey; Kathy Mulder; JoAnn Nilson; Candice Schachter; Kristy Wittmeier; Ralph Deters
Abstract
Hemophilia is a bleeding condition that prevents blood clot during injuries. Some studies suggest that persons with the condition often do not report the problem and in some cases, there is the need to take certain critical actions when injuries occur. This has created the need to investigate best approaches that can encourage people with the condition to seek medical help or in the case where the injury is minor, the patients can treat themselves by following some guidelines. To this effect, our ongoing project, which is in collaboration with the Canadian Physiotherapists in Hemophilia Care (CPHC), seek to explore the issue through the adoption of mobile computing technology. Thus, an App is developed called, Hemophilia Injury Recognition Tool (HIRT?), which provides the users (especially young men) with a set of instructions on how to access minor injuries. In cases where the injury is severe, the patient is asked to go to the emergency room or contact the nearest Hemophilia Treatment Center which is provided in the App. The paper discusses the architectural flow of the App as well as the user feedback. Overall, the haemophiliacs who tested the App found it very useful in terms of its content, reminders, and clarity of steps.
Keywords
Mobile Devices; Haemophilia; Proxy; Cloud Computing; Distributed System; NoSQL Database; Injury Assessment
StartPage
96
EndPage
107
Doi
10.5963/BER0304002
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