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Healthcare Application for Foreigners Living in China

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The language barrier brings communication difficulties between international patients and healthcare providers in China, possibly resulting in serious health risk. This paper design a healthcare app which could increase convenience in getting healthcare service, reduce communication gap between patients and healthcare providers. An interview was conducted for international students and Chinese doctors. With the help of interview results, a healthcare app for foreigners living in China was developed.

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This study was funded by a National Natural Science Foundation China grant 73038101 and a Social Science Foundation Beijing grant 16YYC040.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Xueyuan Road no. 37, Beijing, 100191, Haidian District, China

    Syed Attiqur Rehman, Zhe Chen & Muhammad Haris

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  1. School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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  2. Center for Applied Systems Engineering, Veterans Affairs, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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Rehman, S.A., Chen, Z., Haris, M. (2018). Healthcare Application for Foreigners Living in China. In: Duffy, V., Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60483-1_15

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