Personalized Pain Diary on a Handheld Device

摘要: With our ageing society, the group of less- computer literate patients is currently growing. Thus, all treatments involving patient cooperation need to address this type into procedure, well aware human short comings in punctuality and reliability. We propose amelio- rate these error sources by making use computerized time stamps a sophisticated handheld finger-tip user-interface support unexperienced maintain reliable pain medication diary. The diary individualized pre- defining set medications their proper medical doctor. application running on state-of-the- art hand-held device featuring touch screen gesture recog- nition. reminds judge his/her status according Visual Analog Scale (VAS) up several times day at predefined intervalls. At those given times, inputs his intake list or with free text editor. Other events (like meals bowel movements) may be manually logged as well. To transfer data back practitioner, uploads accumulated XML-files cable con- nection, secure WLAN connection dedicated desk- top PC, thus enabling practitioner analyze log.