Mobile-Based Telemedicine Application during COVID-19 Pandemic (Case Study in Sawah Besar Community Health Center)

Telemedicine is a solution to overcome the problem of limited public access to health services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this research is to develop mobile-based telemedicine application to help people get health services. The method used in this research consists of data collection method, problem identification method, application design method and evaluation method. Problem tree method is used to identify problems in this research. Application design method using System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Waterfall model. The results of the study showed a positive response from the public to telemedicine application as a means for ease of health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I. Introduction

Indonesia is an archipelagic country which has 17,508 islands. According to data from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the land area of Indonesia is 1,910,931,320 square kilometers and the ocean area is 3,544,743,900 square kilometers. Hence, total area of Indonesia is 5,455,675,220 square kilometers [1] .