Impact of MCT Practices on Health Care System: A Case Study

Mobile Communication Technology (MCT) has advanced manifold over the past few years and has established as a leading wireless communication medium. It has a distinct advantage of getting integrated with existing Information Technology environments at very low system requirements.? The Text Messaging Services has been operational now for the last one decade and can be extremely useful in developing a reliable, low cost Enterprise Information System where small quantities of information are required to be disseminated over huge populace. This mobile communication oriented Information Systems have played a very important role in the Health care systems. The health care system includes a wide range of facilities and services delivered through institutions (e.g. hospitals, nursing homes) and non-institutions (e.g. doctors, dentists). These facilities and services are provided by local, state and federal governments as well as private individuals, businesses and organizations. In this paper we are proposing a very cost effective mobile communication based solution for the development of an efficient information system involving activities related to health care systems.