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Abstract-

The MEDIHi app is a personal medical assistant. In an attempt to provide intelligent health care and
make it more accessible, this interactive application analyzes symptoms to diagnose , predict medical
conditions, generate treatments and suggestions based on user input. As the population of
smartphone users has grown, the role of the smartphone in healthcare has shifted from a device for
calling a doctor to a tool that can be used for better access and more efficient delivery of services.
This scope can take the form of an application on the smart device and expand a patient's access to
care. Palliative medicine is defined as the "active comprehensive care" of terminally ill patients.
Assessment tools such as the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) can help the palliative
care practitioner determine the patient's wellbeing. Patient and Symptom ESAS measures the
patient's level of pain, fatigue, nausea, depression, anxiety, drowsiness, appetite, well-being, and
shortness of breath on a discrete numerical scale from 0 to 10. Current Limitations Prevent
Continuous Monitoring by Palliative Care Professionals The proposed solution to strengthen the
connection between the patient and their palliative care team has been to develop an intelligent
device application that enables a "real-time assessment and interaction environment". In addition,
since there is a statistical basis to identify changes in any parameter in the assessment tool through
tests, the program can identify providers and alert them to significant negative changes in symptoms.
A step function is assigned to respond differently to different degrees of statistical variation.Every
statistical deviation from the (mean) initial values of the response values triggers a response that
contains a text message or, if the deviation is very alarming, a call from a hospice doctor. The app
continuously transmits the collected information to the "dashboard" of a provider, which contains all
patients who are cared for by this hospice team. With the features of this smartphone app, doctors
can securely access patient data and make more informed decisions about their care plan. The app
will be expanded to include patients from various hospitals and ultimately all palliative patients at the
Mayo Clinic, for example those with heart failure, kidney failure, Alzheimer's and many others.

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