An e-Health tele-media application for patient management

Developing countries have challenges of providing health care services to its citizenry, delivering medical services and monitoring patients for progress and real-time data collection for research and development. In Uganda, Malaria, Malnutrition, respiratory tract infections, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis are leading causes of morbidity and mortality [7]. There is a great need to deploy technologies like Speech Recognition, IVR, SMS and web applications in the health sector that will provide patients (especially out-patients) with real-time management of illnesses, reactions or side effects to prescribed medication, update patients on scheduled doctor patient appointments and make prescription reminders, provide survey data for medical research, facilitate access diagnosis from a physician and general medical assistance using a combination of a web services, speech recognition, IVR and SMS.