A Survey Paper on Android based Doctor Patient Interaction System

Information and Communication Technologies are commonly used in healthcare organizations worldwide. The android operating system based devices such as Smartphones and computer tablets are extensively used for many purposes like instant messaging, word processing, gaming, Internet and downloading applications, word processing. A quick growth of android phones has enabled to replace PC’s software and alternative licensed software development technologies. There are completely different varieties of healthcare applications developed in android devices that facilitate patients to reduce time and cost efficiency. In this paper, an overview of the android based platform for consumers, doctors, patients and the medical service providers at their finger-tip is taken. The application is suitable for patient as they can consult a doctor for particular illness or disease. The usage of this application is incredibly easy for the doctors because it permits them to enter patient’s name, drug’s details, and dosage. Once the details like patient’s postal address is fed into the application, it allows the patient to accumulate medicines directly from any pharmacy or medical store and can pay the bill online through app. The system also provides a facility to send instructions and prescriptions to the patients. Doctor can set the timer for patient’s medicine to remind the patient for taking his medicine. Patient’s reports are also managed and available to both doctor and patient. Patient can keep informing doctor about his health status and doctor can perform necessary step on that basis.