MOBILE HEALTH TIPS USING ANDROID

Junave C. Ramos

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I. Background of the Study

There is an increase interest in the area of Artificial Intelligence in general and

expert systems in particular. Expert systems are rapidly growing technology. Expert
system is a branch of Artificial Intelligence which is having a great impact on many fields
of human life. Expert systems use human expert knowledge to solve complex problems
in many fields such as Health, science, engineering, business, and weather forecasting.
Organizations employing the technology of expert system have seen an increase in the
efficiency and the quality. An expert system is computer program that emulates the
behavior of a human expert. The expert system represents knowledge solicited from
human expert as data or production rules within a computer program. These rules and
data can be used to solve complex problems. In this paper, we give an overview of this
technology and will discuss a survey on many papers done in health using expert system
(Abu-Nasser, 2017).

Furthermore, the healthcare problems are growing rapidly day by day and
people have to spend lot of money for their daily checkup, because they do not have an
easy and free access to their checkup. Android-based application has been proposed
recently for easy access and use for providing almost free of cost facility to users (Habib
et. al, 2016). In fact, a growing amount of health-related mobile applications is flooding
the application market and the digitization of the health sector processes rapidly with
digital offerings becoming more and more popular (Schade , 2017).

Moreover, the use of Android mobile phone is drastically increasing and the
people have an easy access to it. An application on android phone plays a significant role
to people particularly on health related issues (Habib et. al,2016). Furthermore, self-
tracking has featured as a central practice in health promotion and healthcare for
centuries. People have paid attention to the details of their bodily functions and
sensations, their diet, body weight, drug use and exercise habits, as part of attempting to
achieve good health or manage illness and disease. Over the past few years, a
fascination with self-tracking and its implications for concepts of self, identity, social
relations and embodiment has emerged in sociological and other social research. This
interest has partly sprung from increasing coverage in the mass media of the potential for
new digital technologies to facilitate self-tracking in novel ways. The possibilities for new
mobile media and apps to be used to monitor and measure human bodies have also been
championed in medical publications (Lupton, 2016).

Triantafyllidis et al. (2015) proposed an applicatoin that enable the end-users

do self-reporting of their health data such as symptoms, problems, dietary or physical
behavior and test results which are currently difficult to sense through sensors. With the
input given by the user, appropriate health tips will be showed in the system. With this,
the user and the mobile phone is communicating in terms of input and output.

Consequently, there are many systems on health-related content analysis in

the context of opinion mining and sentiment analysis , however, most of such studies are
webbased and address the user generated contents. The aforementioned health care
systems are either web-based recommendation systems or intelligent expert systems.
Therefore, there is a need to develop an android-based application that can assist the
users to monitor their daily basis health-related activities for keeping them healthy.
 II. Objectives of the Study

The study proposes to develop a Mobile Health Tips using Android and applies
the new approach that can assist the users to monitor their daily basis health-related
activities for keeping them healthy.

Specifically, this study sought to:

1. Design a system that will help users monitor and detect if they are having
disease or recommend what they will do if they have one;
2. Give proper instructions to avoid certain disease through an input output data
gathering
3. Help self-track someone’s health situation through analyzing data
4. Build a reliable application to improve health conditions
 III. References

[1] Anam Habib, Ammara Habib and Naila Shams “Android-Based Health-Care
Management System”, 2016

[2] Leah Janina Schade “The Role Of Mobile Health Applications For

Health Insurance Companies In Germany”, 2017

[3] Andreas Triantafyllidis, Carmelo Velardo, Tracey Chantler and Syed Ahmar Shah “A
personalised mobile-based home monitoring system for heart failure: The SUPPORT-HF
Study”, January 2015

[4] Deborah Lupton “Self-tracking, Health and Medicine”, November 2016

[5] Bassem S. Abu-Nasser “Medical Expert System Survey” in International Journal of

Engineering and Information Systems (IJEAIS) ISSN: 2000-000X Vol. 1 Issue 7,
September – 2017, Pages: 218-224