A Web- and App- Based Interaction System Bridging the Gap between Patients and Doctors

Abstract: In modern society, people are lack of physical activity and have a poor eating habit. A sedentary lifestyle causes an increase of disease and death rate among European Union. Compared to the general population, people with Several Mental Illness(SMI) suffer more from poor health condition. Thus the project, as a part of the LIFEHOPE.EU, is established to ameliorate to this circumstances through encouraging people with SMI to regularly attend physical exercises and eat a balanced diet. However, most patients with SMI who participate in the program live in remote areas. It is inconvenient to hold face-to-face meetings with either doctors or group menmbers. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a system to solve this problem. The system contains an Android application for patients and an administrative website for doctors to keep contact with patients in order to monitor and assist patients' recovery. In this paper, the system is based on Apache Web Server and Android. How the functions of this system are created and realized will be  elaboratly introduced and illustrated. In addition, CakePHP framework applies in website development. After design and implementaion, tests will be run on both the the Android app and the website to evaluate security and performance.