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Gadjah Mada University develops phone app for health care
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An official of the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) shows the state health insurer's mobile application that enables people to access health services and control payments through cellular phones. (Antara/Aloysius Jarot Nugroho)
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iming to make health care more accessible to people, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is developing a cellular phone application called Nusa Health that will keep health records.
“The university will distribute 1,000 cellular telephones to citizens who will undergo a medical check-up funded by the university. The results will be stored in their phones,” Dwikorita Karnawati, the UGM rector, said over the weekend as quoted by antaranews.com.
She added that the development of the application used local technology.
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Through the application, citizens can also directly contact doctors about their health problems. She added that data obtained from the application would be analyzed to figure out the users' health patterns and how to respond to health problems.
Gunung Kidul regency, Yogyakarta, has been chosen as the region for the pilot project of the application. The application will also be developed in Bantul and Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta.
“The challenges for this program are the social dynamics among citizens. We ask students to introduce the program to citizens during their community service [KKN] period,” she said.
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She added that the development for the program, which targets citizens with no access to health facilities, was expected to finish in 2017 and would be operational in 2019. (rdi/wit)
