Mobile Application for Patients' Waiting Time Control and Management of Diagnostic Imaging Examinations

Background

Recent studies focus on the benefits of Informatics Technology (IT) in the public sector. The most commonly used information systems that are used in the public sector are the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS require a great investment in financial and human resources. They are mainly financed by public investors (Kurwakumire, 2014). In most cases, the implementation of GIS technology is used to test the efficiency of healthcare units and hospitals. They are used for analyzing and understanding the spatial dimension of health care (Topol, 2015). GIS tools enable the transformation of quantitative healthcare data to geographic objects. The process is known as geocoding and is used in data analysis (Yasobant et al., 2015). The use of GIS can solve many spatial-orientated management and planning problems (Jawad et al., 2013).

Besides all the significant benefits of using GIS mobile technologies, there are also some limitations. For example, great delays can be encountered when GIS applications access cloud services. There are also many challenges associated with GIS mobile applications and mainly is the privacy protection of owner’s data (Mehmood et al., 2015). Some papers reveal more limitations related to GIS processing of sociocultural data. In that case, the constraints refer to data exclusion and data incompatibility (Bagheri, 2014).