“Mobile Medical Card” – An Android Application For Medical Data Maintenance

The advent of technology in our everyday lives has fundamentally altered the way by which the information is collected, interpreted, stored, and analyzed. Data networks in the developing world have been an important part of health-care systems. Moreover, due to a growth in population, the journey of the patient across the multiple routes in the healthcare system would highly challenge the accountability, tracking, recording, and analysis of patient data. Developing a model for gathering patient medical information from various health care contexts (i.e., family physicians, private clinics, emergency department visits, social service routes, and hospital systems) is essential, and requires more space to store all patient data. The cloud database is an efficient solution to implement this application and it consists of various services like authentication, storage, and cloud messaging. The users are authenticated and then the user data is maintained in a centralized manner via cloud services. This research work also incorporates a Quick Response (QR code) to access patient-specific medical data through a smart card in the smartphone. The smart card will serve as a sharing media with other health care providers and facilitated decision making. It helps to make good decisions before treatment by checking previous medical records of the patient.