| Abstrakt: |
Background: Telemedicine system plays a vital role as a bridge between patients and medical environments. During covid-19 pandemic, one the high risk situation is to be in a populated area such as waiting saloon to visit a doctor for non-essential face-to-face diagnosis. Objective: To develop an application in order to drop considerable amount of in-person referrals during covid-19. Material and Methods: This application includes several phases. First of all, patients should fill out the questionnaire such as last day's foodstuffs, taken medicine, being exposed of any chemical substance, makeup material, radiation and so on. The secondary phase, patients should attach some photos from skin appendages, like eczema, acne, skin mole and etc. And third phase, contains uploading data with patient profile which consist of patients name, age, disease background and extra note for additional items if they are not listed already. At the end of the day, final phase includes related dermatologist's prescription and diagnosis. If any question remained, we provided a message box for both patient and doctor. The usability testing of this application evaluated by Nielsen model. Results: The results from the usability tests showed the application has met 8 out of the 13 heuristics rules set by Nielsen. Conclusion: It helps to the health center to prevent congestion which is useful for both treatment staff of health centers and patients for being immune from infectious of Covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
