Desenvolvimento de um software para dispositivos móveis visando auxiliar no manejo de indivíduos doentes, utilizando imagens digitais para estudo de sua evolução

Abstract

Poor regions around the world have problems with a poor or non-existent health system. Some of these sites struggle from Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). These diseases affect mainly tropical regions without basic sanitation, with poor and isolated people; and consequently these regions receive few or none political and financial support. In contrast, some researches shows that the mobile technology can support the medical monitoring, decreasing distances between patients and medical specialists. With this in mind, this project aims to develop a mobile device application to support medical monitoring of the patients by healthcare professionals. The software was developed for smartphones with Android operating system, and it was designed to use few resources, enabling its use in poor regions with little infrastructure. The app consists of reference manuals for diseases and endemic sites, calculations of medical scores, and registration of consultations and patients. On Consultation Screen, the user can record the anamnesis description and photographs of the signs; it is also available a resource to take and view sequential photos. And finally, a functionality was developed for compressing and sharing the information of consultations with other health professionals in a fast, practical and organized way. This app is part of the project: “Optimization of early diagnosis and management of information with visceral leishmaniasis in endemic areas with different transmission profiles and endemicity”, and will be used in the endemic areas of leishmaniasis as a tool to assist the healthcare professionals in the medical monitoring of the patients.