Personal health care framework for children

Abstract

Child health care requires intensive and careful attention. It is associated with limited capabilities of a child, especially a child with special condition, such as baby, toddler, and sick child, that has many limitation capabilities to communicate, to move, and to think. Moreover, children also has susceptible immunity system. The lack of care and monitoring health care for children can be caused by busy parents, the lack of parent's knowledge about health care, the lack of parent's awareness to monitor a child's health, that eventually can be some cause of disruption in children growth and development and health care process. This paper proposes a holistic health care framework that can be set according to child's condition and enable to distribute information accurately, directly to parents, person who take care the child, and pediatrician or hospital. Health care's reminder and information dissemination system will be directly sent to parent's or nanny's smartphone. A single click concept also enable parents to call pediatrician or hospital immediately in an emergency condition. All of child's daily data, included food, activity, medicine, and their treatment, will be recorded as an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and displayed as a chart, to simplify parent and pediatrician in monitoring child's health condition. At the end, the use of this holistic framework also prevent the child from many harmful condition for their health, such as drugs complication, error on diet and activity, inaccuracy of health care needed.