Thai Pregnant Mobile Application: Review and Development Report

Abstract

<p class="0abstractCxSpFirst">Since health-related information for pregnant women is extremely complex and sensitive, end-users of any application are required to have the same level of knowledge as the information providers to help them to navigate between various sources of information to ascertain the reliability of contents that are often confusing. However, although there are several such applications for Thai pregnant women in the market, few were developed based on research evidence.</p><p class="0abstractCxSpMiddle"> This study is focused on the design of a health application specifically for Thai pregnant women by extracting the explicit problems of existing applications and providing solutions to them. A design thinking methodology comprised of empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test was used as a guideline to develop a prototype app. IT experts, physical therapists and pregnant women were recruited as participants to address the problem taxonomy and obtain a solution.</p><p class="0abstractCxSpLast">The new application produced in this study with the aim of encouraging pregnant women especially for Thai women to engage in physical activity was based on research, and the input of physical therapists, IT experts and pregnant women users was able to feasibly inform the development of an acceptable and usable mobile health application for pregnant women.</p>

Blockchain Socket Factories with RMI-Enabled Framework for Fine-Grained Healthcare Applications

“…The main limitations with the RPC and RMI are live client and server connection stability, where intermittent service changes make the connection unreliable for the applications. The connection-enabled framework based on sockets is presented in [ 3 , 5 ]. The study achieved a strong connection and stored the running data on the cache without disruption of the request of applications during their executions.…”

“…The RMI, CORBA, and RPC exploit the socket-based architecture where users and servers are separated, as in the client and server architecture. The client and server architectures are widely designed based on socket programming, where socket client and socket server classes are designed into the application programming interface [ 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Recently, the socket integrated cloud computing services to enhance the performance of the client–server model to support healthcare applications.…”

“…Challenges: In practice, the existing blockchain technologies such as Ethereum, Corda, Fabric, and IBM are widely exploited for healthcare applications. However, many research challenges exist in the current blockchain technologies and their approaches to RPC socket architectures [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] for healthcare applications. (i) The existing client–server architecture based on socket RPC suffers from high processing costs for cloud computing.…”

Efficiency of Mobile Application of Thai Criteria Based Dispatch: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial

“…Nowadays, smart healthcare applications have been applied in a variety of medical settings [1][2], and an increasing number of people are using smart technology to access primary healthcare by smartphone [3][4]. Healthcare applications based on smart technology have become extremely popular in emergency medical settings to support service operations [5][6].…”