The applications of smartphone technology are widespread but have left the medical industry largely unexplored. Doctors now have modern technology to diagnose and cure patients, but the collection of data and its subsequent storage is still antiquated. In some rural areas around the world, paper-based record systems are used to keep patient data. Even in adequately resourceful places, patients must make an appointment to see a doctor who can then tell them about their current condition. This system of patient care is highly resource intensive and presents recurring difficulty for long-term patients, especially those individuals suffering from cancer. Cancer patients need to show up regularly to report their current condition and any notable incidents of pain or distress to their oncologists. The motivation for this paper was to test if we could reduce the resources wasted on this operation, so that the process can be more efficient and would increase the quality of life of already troubled patients. In order to address the problem of unnecessarily difficult doctors’ visits, one could develop an android application called PainSmart that would collect data directly from the users and send it to the doctor without having to visit the clinic in person. The data gathered by PainSmart will be locally stored on the device the patient is using and can be adapted to be saved in the doctor’s local or centralized database. It was tested by the cancer patients under supervision of Dr. Jeeyae. Five patients were able to explore the pain app after only 20 minutes of training.

Recommended Citation: Nalawade S., Baker E., Simmonds D., Schell G., (2019). Android Mobile Applications Development for Healthcare Data Collection. UNCW MS CSIS Proceedings. V. 13 , N. 2 .