Islam Rafiqul, Nohara Yasunobu, Rahman Md Jiaur, Sultana Nazneen, Ahmed Ashir, Nakashima Naoki
Medical Information Center, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Grameen Communications, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21;264:616-619. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190296.
The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavors to take healthcare facilities along with remote doctors' consultancy to the doorsteps of the unreached people using an advanced telemedicine system. Thus, the necessity of having physical healthcare peripheries specially in the developing countries can be mitigated. The PHC system promotes preventive healthcare by encouraging regular health checkups so that diseases can be prevented as well as their severity can be mitigated, leading to a reduction on healthcare expenses. Thus, the number of patients along with excessive workload on existing healthcare human resources can be minimized. The current project in rural Bangladesh alone has served more than 41,000 people so far by the PHC system and a simple analysis of this data shows some significant findings on regional health status. A simple expansion of this program, covering a wider service area, can produce a big data to reflect the whole country's health profile.
便携式健康诊所（PHC）系统致力于通过先进的远程医疗系统，将医疗设施和远程医生咨询服务带到难以触及的人群家门口。因此，特别是在发展中国家，拥有实体医疗周边设施的必要性可以得到缓解。PHC系统通过鼓励定期健康检查来促进预防性医疗保健，从而预防疾病并减轻其严重程度，进而降低医疗费用。这样，患者数量以及现有医疗人力资源的过度工作量都可以最小化。仅孟加拉国农村地区的当前项目，到目前为止，PHC系统已为超过41000人提供了服务，对这些数据的简单分析显示了一些关于地区健康状况的重要发现。该项目的简单扩展，覆盖更广泛的服务区域，可以产生反映全国健康状况的大数据。
