Chapter 2 Background Work

This thesis proposes a Web based model of healthcare service by using modern communication technologies namely the Internet, through which medical care is delivered to each individual at any time and at any place. The basic idea is to facilitate healthcare needs at a much better qualitative level and at lower costs. Hence, to make our efforts pragmatic and highly productive, a review of past studies was done. This helped the definition of the scope, concepts, working definitions, technology and formulation of model used in our research. Hence, a brief review of literature related to the subject of the research, is presented in this chapter.