HOME QUART: HEALTH APPS FOR MONITORING HOME QUARANTINE PATIENT

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ANGELBERT P. MAGHANOY, PET ANDREW P. NACUA, BELL S. CAMPANILLA, MARIE JOY B. ALIT, PETER H. CALAURIAN

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Home Quart is a monitoring application for frontliners like doctors and barangay health workers that monitors quarantine patients in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines. It is developed to help the health workers to monitor the quarantine patients efficiently even if they are isolated in the comfort of their homes, doctors can consult and recommend medicines remotely, and barangay health workers can see the updates on the patients’ symptoms and status without going house to house. The descriptive developmental method of research was utilized to gather data on close contact persons of the positive patients. Respondents were the village health workers, nurses, and medical doctors, to which they responded with two sets of the researchers-made instrument. The data were statistically treated using frequency, simple percentage, and weighted mean. The study revealed that the application prototype was highly acceptable by the users. Also, it reveals that the developed applications were friendly, accessible, and secured. It was concluded that physical monitoring of village health workers and quarantine patients would be easier to implement due to the digitization of records. The researchers strongly recommend that the system be implemented and evaluated to solve the existing problems relating to home quarantine.

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