Arezou Taheri*, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

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According to WHO documents, more than half of the somatic diseases are caused by mental disorders, which may disrupt normal body functions for a long or even short period of time and create health problems. Therefore, many somatic problems are often supposed to be related to psychological problems. For instance, Hepatitis can be caused by resistance to change, fear, anger, and resentment; while resistance, tension, hardened narrow–mindedness, and refusing to see well are probable causes of Arteriosclerosis. It seems a simultaneous approach to help more effective and lasting treatment is considerable. In other words, particular conditions must be provided to enable both practitioners and physicians to treat somatic and psychological aspects of the patients, simultaneously. As the little and fragmented experience cannot be reliable, global experiences are needed. Hence, designing a global medium that is capable of computing and displaying statistical relationship between somatic signs/symptoms on the one side, and psychological symptoms along with developing treatment guidelines for every patient (by collecting physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists experiences) on the other side, is of special importance.
In this paper, in line with achievement of a global and simultaneous treatment expansion of patients’ body and psyche, an integrated and dynamic database along with its software for probable psychological pattern diagnosis of causes of diseases is designed and implemented. The developed software permits psychiatrists and psychologists to insert psychic factors associated with diseases. Furthermore, physicians are able to use developed system recommended psychological patterns and psychic factors in order to make more experts who confirm the probable psychological patterns. As the related software system is a mobile web 2.0 based one, it grants members of this website, including patients, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, health administrators and policy makers, to access the latest analyzed data stored in the center. This will assist diagnosis, treatment, consultation, following up the patients’ status, and education. In this system, it is possible to register necessary complementary information, such as patients’ medical history, current diseases, physical, sensational, emotional, and psycho-mental signs/symptoms, and the taken drugs. Also, the system is fully capable of being connected with Electronic Health Record system. All the provided information is accessible to physicians in various and appropriate formats such as: Image, Excel, Word, PDF and HTML file, for the purpose of assisting physicians finding out about hidden reasons and psychological causes of diseases to promote patients’ health, and helping them make quick decisions and take necessary comprehensive actions in diagnosis and controlling the disease.
Such a system which is recommended as a new tool for communication between physicians and psychologists; provides situations that shorten the treatment period, saves healthcare budget, reduces the number of visiting several physicians for a certain disease, and helps patients recovering. Moreover, the system has the ability to quickly complete the “psychosomatic disorders” list from statistical perspective.
As a final word, a global web based system is provided to connect, process and combine two psychological and physiological signs and symptoms for improving cure and treatment of diseases and psychosomatic disorders.

Key Words: Psychosomatic Disorders, Psychological pattern, Database, web based system, sign, symptom