The Role of E-diagnosis Knowledge Based System on Omani Society: Skin Disease as Case

Abstract

Due to the lack of knowledge, some people in the rural area in Oman often overlooking some diseases because of the long distance they need to go for seeing a Specialist or physician. Therefore, the proposed mobile knowledge based system will be designed based on data has been collected from related peoples to design a e-diagnosis system that could help in identifying some diseases such as dermatology disease with little effort for the people in the rural area of Oman. and thus, constructing a website e-diagnoses knowledge based to be used in evaluation of the disease's and taking different kind of decisions regarding to the diseases expect to provide required very accurate statistics figures regarding to these diseases. The research will use qualitative data collection method by collecting data from specialist's interviews, and thematic data analysis will be used. The expected system will allow the specialists to keep seeing their patients without leaving their clinics and will helps the rural peoples in Oman to see their specialist without leaving their village's. Therefore, the e-diagnosis knowledge based will be created to help the decision makers with deferent kind of statistical reports.