Thymun: Smart Mobile Health Platform for The Autoimmune Community to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Autoimmune Sufferers in Indonesia

Abstract

Autoimmune disease occurs when the autoimmune response or an immune system response attacks the body’s tissues causing altered functions in a human’s body. Some autoimmune diseases are life-threatening and require a lifetime of treatment, and the cure to the autoimmune itself has not yet to be discovered. This condition interferes with daily activities and causes drawbacks in productivity, mental health, and their healing progress. In this paper, we introduce Thymun, a smart health mobile application-based community platform to improve the wellness of autoimmune sufferers. Based on the requirements of several health professionals with years in autoimmune fields, activist and patients itself Thymun comes with the aims to help the digitalization of therapy management in order to help literate health professional and patients on ongoing-clinical trials, symptom’s progression tracking, dietary approach on disease management and the personal data support of selective dieting, community platform, and other major symptoms management. Thymun is made into an android prototype using prototyping method. Based on consumer evaluation and other professional feedbacks thymun’s features are met with major requirements for people with autoimmune.