Design of Multimedia Messaging Service for Mobile Telemedicine System

The growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has already revealed an impact on our modern society. Mobile messaging technologies have already been considered as a key field for variety of research to pick up the knowledge how ICTs can help the modern society people, who are dynamically shifting toward information-based civilization. Multimedia messaging service (MMS) is one of the branches of mobile messaging technologies, which is a rich content message sending system that not only sends text but also sends image, voice, animation or combination of them. MMS can be sent to mobile phone number and also to email server. MMS are growing widely for many purposes, such as streaming, mobile learning, mobilecommerce, telemedicine, etc. This research proposes an architecture and algorithm of MMS frame work for a mobile telemedicine system. MMS establishes a proper communication between the doctor who is working in the hospital and the nurse who is providing assistance to the patients at patient’s living place. This telemedicine system is expected to provide an effective treatment to the patients who are living in remote areas.