mHealth Application for Fast Attention to People with Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Urgencies

Health has always been one of the most important issues to address over time as it helps us to have a better life quality and allows us to live longer. However, in Mexico, there is a large number of deaths due to noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, one of the main factors causing deaths is the lack of attention to the person in emergency situations in time, complications of these diseases can cause heart attacks or strokes. Information technologies and smartphone users are growing everyday and are using mobile applications related to health care among other things to improve their lifestyle thank to the benefits it offers. In this paper, a phone call and messaging application is developed to help users with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications that have to be treated urgently and can’t go with the doctor by themselves, thanks to the app help they can be taken to a hospital by a relative or a private ambulance by means of a text message previously predefined by the patient depending on their illness; this message also sends its location to the receivers so they can go and transfer them to an emergency room as soon as possible.