DOCTORS NEARBY - ANDROID APPLICATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Abstract
The time lapse in medical help to accidental victims is a concern of increasing
urgency in India and other countries. Doctors Nearby (an android app) fills the
gap between the doctor and the person in need. It provides the information of all
the doctors present in nearby locality. From the specialists to an OPD doctor,
this app provides all the necessary information regarding the selected hospitals,
such as location and working hours. Other than all this Doctors Nearby app has
a special Emergency button for accidental cases. The Emergency button when
pressed will direct the user to the nearest accidental hospital working on the
current time and will call the contacts chosen as Emergency contacts and also
will send an SMS to the contacts providing the current location and the location
of the hospital the user is being directed to. This paper describes the application,
its development, and its technical implementation.
Introduction
This paper is about an android application, which helps people to find the
nearest hospitals and available doctors to their present location. This application
not only helps a patient by locating them to the nearest hospital but it also
provides an Emergency Service. However, there are several applications
available in the market; they do not provide all the facilities at a single place,
whereas this application includes all the services required and it is free to
access. The existing system do not provide any services in case of Emergency,
whereas proposed system not only provide users details of the nearest hospital
but also sends a notification to Emergency contacts including current location of
patient and location of the nearest hospital to the patient, just by a single click.
The key idea behind this project is to provide list of all the hospitals, clinics,
and the available doctors nearby a user, including details about the doctors such
as his/her Degree, nominal fees, working hours.