CKP-PHR app:Smartphone Application For Personal Health Records of Children with Kidney Disease

Recently, with the increase of using smartphones, there has been a great interest in using mobile applications in the healthcare field. There is a wide variety of healthcare mobile applications that provide different types of services for patients such as diagnosis assistance, follow-up, documentation management, etc. Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) typically deals with Electronic Medical records (EMR), which can also be used interchangeably with Electronic Health Records (EHR). Both are used in clinical documentation and can be easily accessed using smartphones. Patients with chronic diseases have important paper medical reports that help doctors in making medical decisions when diagnosing any health problems in the future. Still, these medical documents are liable to be lost or damaged. Also, a patient may have difficulty finding a particular document from a large collection of medical documents. This paper develops a mobile application that allows managing personal patient health records (such as medical reports, prescriptions, and laboratory results). In particular, the scope of this paper focuses on the personal health records of kidney patients of Benghazi Children's Hospital. This prototype includes information on Kidney disease for children, a user's main menu, medical history data gathering, medical report recording, and analysis findings. With its simple design and user-friendly, users with chronic diseases can use this app to stay in touch with their doctors and live a healthy lifestyle. The application is developed in an Android environment based on databases on the cloud to provide data anytime and anywhere, making it easier for the doctor to diagnose and monitor his disease correctly from anywhere.