Intelligent E-Healthcare Management System in Medicinal Science

In this paper is presented a distributed e-healthcare system that is expert of automatically diagnose the situation of a patient based on data provided by the patient without involvement from a physician. This service is provided over the internet and can be used to observe the situation of a patient. When the situation of a patient changes, the system will automatically alert the doctor. This was implemented by using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System. This system may be helpful for people cannot habitually visit a physician or who are living in rural areas. KeywordsDiagnosis of diseases, Distributed Networks, E-Healthcare, NFIS, NeuroFuzzy Systems Introduction E-Health is a recent term coined for health care practice supported by electronic communication processes. The expressions for E-health is interchangeable with health informatics, in a broad definition focusing electronic/digital processes in health while others use it in the narrower sense of healthcare practice using the internet. There are many forms of E-health which consist of: electronic health records, telemedicine, consumer healthcare informatics and different additional services. An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a collection of medical data of patients. It is stored in digital form and can be accessed by medical personnel across different healthcare settings by connecting to the network. These data may comprise medical history, results of lab tests, personal information, billing information, records of prescribed medicines prescribed and so on. Tele-medicine is the use of recent electronic communication technologies in order to provide medical care at a distance. It can develop the quality of healthcare that is available at places that are located far from the urban centers. It can also be useful in emergencies and can save patients distant away from medical centers and in need of immediate medical assistance. CHI is a service that is mainly aimed at patients and provides them access to health care information. CHI provides services such as Information Resources, Communications, Remote Monitoring, Videoconferencing, and Telepresence among others. M-Health is the use of mobile communication devices such as mobile phones, PDAs etc., to facilitate the delivery of healthcare and information. Hospitals and other institutions that provide healthcare are gradually adopting E-Health services. E-Health services are especially useful in India where around 60% of the population lives in rural areas whereas most of the practicing physicians are in urban centers. In this paper, an E-Healthcare system is proposed that can be used to monitor and diagnose neck and arm pain disease while the patient is in his home. The patient can regularly check his vital signs and can upload this data to a server. This data is then accessed by a diagnostic agent who performs a diagnosis on the data and can suggest remedial measures to the patient. The system also contains a database that is used to store the data. If the condition of the patient becomes critical, the diagnostic agent will immediately inform a physician by email. Physicians can also check the current condition of patients through the database.