| dc.description.abstract | In emergencies such as accidents,
natural disasters and epidemics, immediate
medical treatment in necessary, where patients
need to be transported to the hospital from their
location. In such situations, Emergency Medical
Services (EMSs) as well as ambulances play an
important role in saving people’s precious lives.
Presently, there are several systems in Sri Lanka
to direct ambulance drivers to reach the patient’s
location in minimal time and to send the patient
to the nearest hospital as soon as possible. But
there are some limitations in these systems, such
as the nearest hospital may not have the facilities
to treat the patient, limited number of
ambulances available for each of these systems,
hospitals’ difficulties in tracking ambulances and
the fact that existing systems do not maintain
patient health records. Therefore, the need for a
Cloud-based Real-time Emergency medical
service Platform that can be used across the
country is essential to address the said issues.
The aim of this research is to provide a
mechanism to reduce the latency of finding a
suitable hospital for an emergency patient. The
proposed platform is built using a Web
application and an Android application that serve
as the admin panel and user panel respectively.
MySQL database hosted by a web server is
utilized as a database connector between the
Android application and the Web application.
This paper presents design and implementation
details of the proposed system and offers a
comparative study on existing systems in Sri
Lanka to understand the significance of the new
system. | en_US |
