Design and Implementation a Teleotology system

The lack of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists and their inappropriate distribution throughout the country has caused challenges for individuals who live in deprived areas to access hearing services. Application of modern technologies to communicate with service providers can partly deal with this problem. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the design process and features of a teleotology system. In this regard, a system was defined, through which the patient's clinical information and images were electronically represented to a consultant physician who was away from the patient. In order to design this system, a need analysis was conducted among the ENT specialists to determine the required content and capabilities of the system. Then, the collected information was used to design the web-based teleotology application on Android platform version ۴.۰.۳ and higher. This software, which uses the SQLite database, was tested with ۱۰ models of android cellphones and no communication errors were observed.

Keywords:

Cellphone application , Android , Teleotology , Design , Implementation