HEALTHME: Electronic Medical Assistant

Diseases such as asthma attacks, stomach infections, common colds, and throat and ear infections are common diseases presented by pediatric patients in public and private primary care doctor's office. The initial examination protocol of the physicians who attend these patients consists of a review of organs such as eyes, nose, throat, heart rhythm, lung and intestinal sounds and temperature. This review should provide the physician with sufficient information to determine if it is a case that requires urgent medical care or not. This document presents the design of EMA, an Electronical Medical Assistant who, based on sensors and an Arduino, obtains data directly from the patient. EMA could be used in two main scenarios; the first one is when the patient is at home and the data is sent to the doctor in order to receive a medical advice. The second one is when the patient is waiting at the hospital; a nurse read his/her data using EMA and sends it to the doctor who will decide the kind and order of the attention. The methodology consists of dividing the project into work packages, assigning to each one the activities corresponding to each of the project modules..