Mobile Application for Chronic Kidney Disease Screening

Abstract

This article aimed to present a pattern for screening chronic kidney disease based on records and mobile application. The strengths together with weaknesses of this screening were also compared. Screening chronic kidney disease is necessary to patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension and risk population aged over 40 years. Therefore, if the population at risk is screened at an early stage, it is able to prevent the progressive disease and also reduce the costs as well as losses. Practically, screening chronic kidney disease relied on several ways i.e. data records and use of mobile application. Herein, each method has different strengths and weaknesses. Mobile application is one of the software programs that can create chronic kidney disease screening form through information technology. It is also designed to run on smartphones in both iOS and Android systems. In Thailand 4.0, mobile application is likely to be appropriate adopted because this application is easy to use, rapid, accurate and precise. In addition, it can continuously track the trend of chronic kidney disease. The administrators can use these output data for promptly planning.