“…In this type of application, text messages will be sent directly to the user's mobile phone, and the content will cover a variety of topics, including detection and treatment methods, medical services, and disease management. Moreover, short messages can penetrate into relatively remote areas, where the level of public health education is low, and medical resources such as medical clinics and medical staff are also relatively limited [ 15 ] - Health hotline: through a set of specific phone numbers, people can use their mobile phones to obtain more medical services, including telephone consultations, service complaints, medical facility information, medicines, medical equipment, and mobile medical clinics
- Diagnosis and treatment support: the application of diagnosis and treatment support is mainly to provide suggestions on diagnosis and treatment of patients for medical workers in remote areas, such applications can provide mobile phone applications, such as medical decision tree systems, to help medical workers make diagnoses, and can also provide diagnoses directly to patients [ 16 ]. Such cases are often referred to as “telemedicine,” where a patient can send a photo of a wound or condition to a remote physician as a reference for diagnosis.
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