WAHIDAH HUSAIN, FATEN DAMANHOORI, NASRIAH ZAKARIA, NORLIA MUSTAFFA

School of Computer Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia

 Abstract
 The growing number of our population with obesity and chronic diseases encourage us to propose the Personalized Healthcare Web-Mobile Intelligent Management and Monitoring System.  Current technologies such as internet and mobile phone can be used to replace the intensive face to face consultation.    The objectives of the system are to provide intelligent health-care management that will contribute to better decision making and to improve the current process of healthcare delivery by supporting communication and sharing of information.  The system will focus on three critical issues in management and monitoring health status which are promoting weight control; encouraging physical activity; and improving knowledge of healthy life style.  In order to handle these issues, the system will be designed to provide daily/weekly healthcare data management, intelligent monitoring of diet and physical activities, intelligent alert and reminding message and intelligent diet planning and menu construction. The system will combine internet with mobile-phone technologies and will integrate personal, food composition databases and general healthcare knowledge-based, including decision support system to assist in both technical and clinical decision making.  It can also become an effective tool to communicate and educate the users in order to improve their understanding of the related diseases. The system will only focus on the management of obesity problems in our society.  In future the system can also be applicable to other chronic diseases related to obesity such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Keywords: Chronic diseases, mobile-phone, internet, knowledge-based, rule-based, case-based