Mobile search engine for medicine information on smartphone

Abstract

Recently, Most Thai people are experiencing problems with self-medication and they don't know the right information because of in Thailand, the people often the self-medication and buy non-prescription medicines. The manual selection may not be accurate according to the sickness. This paper presents the mobile search engine for medicine information on smartphone. This application has been developed to give about the medicines information for general users. The application function is divided into two searching techniques: searching from type of medicine and searching from sickness. The type of medicine can be divided into four categories: dangerous medicine, special controlled medicine, household medicine and common medicine. This paper presents the design and implementation by using Android Studio. The results show that the application can search medicine name include the name of sickness, property, warning, and using of medicine.