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3) The system consists of rural health centers where patients are examined. Reports are sent to doctors for review and prescriptions are sent back to patients.
4) The goal is to address language barriers in healthcare and make medical assistance more accessible to rural populations through a multilingual platform.
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Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year.
1. RESEARCH INVENTY: International Journal of Engineering and Science
ISBN: 2319-6483, ISSN: 2278-4721, Vol. 1, Issue 8 (November 2012), PP 55-59
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CAMH: Towards a Multilingual platform facilitate & Cultural
competence
Onkar S Kemkar1
1
PCD ICSR, VMV College Campus, Wardhaman Nagar, Nagpur – 440008.
Dr P B Dahikar2
2
Kamla Nehru Mahavidyalaya, Sakkardara Square,
Nagpur – 440009.
Abstract: Cultural competence has gained attention as a potential strategy to improve quality and eliminate
racial/ethnic disparities in health care. Yet the motivations for advancing cultural competence and approaches
taken vary depending on mission, goals, and sphere of influence. In this paper we discuss about why we need
the multilingual system, proposed CAMH multilingual system, and how CAMH will become a cultural
competence.
Keywords— ehealth, CAMH, Gynecology, health informatics, EMR
I. INTRODUCTION
eHealth, as a term, encompasses “not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of
thinking, and a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health care locally, regionally, and
worldwide by using information and communication technology”[1]. Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) have an ever-growing impact on our working and private lives, and the healthcare sector is
no exception [2]. Cultural competence has gained attention from health care policymakers, providers, insurers,
and educators as a strategy to improve quality and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in health care. The goal of
cultural competence is to create a health care system and workforce that are capable of delivering the highest-
quality care to every patient regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, or language proficiency. Bringing this to
fruition requires action by various health care sectors, each with different motivations, approaches, and leverage
points for advancing this field. Health System (CAMH) [3] for fast clinical assistance in Gynecology and
Obstetrics in the hard to reach places is described which may be extended across most of the disciplines of
medical sciences. The model of medical health system described here is hoped to provide a solution to much of
the health problems faced by rural populous. Since the system is designed for hard to reach places the computer
operator would know patients language, so that he can select symptoms and description in patient’s language.
II. WHY MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM
A. Problem
Over the years development planning in India has focused on reducing the burden of illness and
mortality among women and children. A large number of development and public health programmes such as
the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have been geared towards this, since a long time. This
multilingual application aims to create awareness by providing useful healthcare related information to the rural
communities, with a special focus on women and child health.
B. Motivation
More often that, doctors and patients come from entirely different cultural backgrounds, and too often,
they are unable to communicate well in each other's language. This can pose a serious barrier to
providing/receiving healthcare in rural areas. Keeping this in mind we have develop an application which is
design in 3 languages i.e. English, Hindi and Marathi. This multilingual application is a part of larger project
CAMH (Computer Assistant Medical Health system), which has been designed to promote intercultural
understanding and facilitate communication between healthcare providers and patients from different
multicultural backgrounds.
III. THE PROPOSED SOLUTION
CAMH allows healthcare professionals to perform live and interactive medical examinations on
patients in remote locations. This System includes integrated diagnostic devices and a complete management
application for managing patient data as shown in figure 1.
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Fig 1: Block Diagram of CAMH
C. Architecture
Technically, the project combines a knowledge management platform, in order to support information
exchange and bridge the language gap. The system architecture approach aims at providing an open platform,
based on open standards, which is extensible and scalable.
The following figure 2 shows the architecture of the CAMH system.
Fig 2: CAMH Architecture
As shown in the figure there is a rural health center (RHC) where the patent will come for consultation.
Then the person who is working at RHC will ask for the patient’s language, then he will ask about the patient’s
complaint depending on patient’s complaint system will prompt questions patient will give answer and patients
answers will be recorded in the system.
After this question answer session one report will generate, now this report will first transfer to the base
unit vial mail using SMTP protocol who will submit that report to the doctor, Doctor will examine that report
and give suggestions and can ask some more questions to the patient if required. At last doctor will prescribe the
medicine and give suggestion that what the patient can do and forward that report to the RHC & RHC will give
that report to the patient
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D. SMTP Protocol
SMTP is the protocol used to send email over the Internet. When we send an email it gets sent to
SMTP server, which then forwards it to the recipient of email. The communication between these two mail
servers are basically the same as the communication between computer and SMTP server.
IV. SYSTEM DESIGN AND PROCEDURAL IMPLEMENTATION
As mentioned above, the system consists of two separate modules: the unit located at the patient's site
called "Rural Health Center" and the unit located at doctor's site called "Base Unit".
Fig 3: Information flow of CAMH system
The above figure 3 shows the information flow of the CAMH system. Information about the patient will
collect at the RHC centers, this information of the patient will sent to the doctor in report format for verification.
After verification the doctor will revert back that report to the RHC center. Then, whatever suggestions and
prescription the doctor has been suggested is finally given to the patient.
VI. RELATED WORK
The CAMH model used in developing computer programme can be extremely useful in providing
medical help to people of hard to reach area. The system can be handled by the semiskilled/paramedics so that
the patients get immediate medical assistance. Doctor based in the city area will offer diagnosis and treatment to
the patient. Such a system can be extended across all specialties of medical sciences.
Currently we are working on the Gynecology software. At first we have created an application
depending on the different gynecological symptoms, now we designing a multilingual gynecological application
as shown below:
1. Main Screen with different symptotic options
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2.
2. Gynecology Symptoms
3. Gynecological Multilingual Problem’s Symptoms
4. Generate report
5. Patient’s Report
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6. Send a report to the Base Unit
VII. CAMH THE CULTURAL COMPETENCE
The healthcare industry is growing at a rapid pace and undergoing some of its most significant changes
as the use of electronic health records increase. Designed for technologists or medical practitioners seeking to
gain entry into the field of healthcare information systems, the fundamentals of healthcare IT (HIT). It takes an
in-depth and comprehensive view of HIT by examining healthcare regulatory requirements, the functions of a
healthcare organization and its medical business operations in addition to IT hardware, software, networking,
and security.
VIII. CONCLUSION
To collaborate and exchange information will be a motivating aspect of the CAMH project from a
social point of view. In this paper we have introduced CAMH as the multilingual system it is expected that
dispersed user groups with similar interests will be brought closer and also it will be useful for educational
purpose and can recover the patient doctor bonding in rural areas by removing language barriers in some extent.
The research challenges in CAMH lie in employing efficient techniques for translation of the content and the
community-enriched nomenclature, as well as exploring options for effective information retrieval of
multilingual content and targeted information push methods.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Authors thank Dr. Shivani Deshpande, MBBS, DGO, DNB for providing needed support to develop
the concept of CAMH system.
REFERENCES
[1] Eysenbach G. (2001) What is e-health. J Med Internet Res 3(2):e20
[2] Europe’s Information Society
[3] Priti Kalode, Onkar Kemkar and D.A.Deshpande, ”International Journal Of Computational Engineering Research” ISSN: 2250–3005,
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