ISSN: 2278 – 1323 International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET) Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2013 All Rights Reserved © 2013 IJARCET 2446 Abstract— This paper report describes the techniques for analyzing, designing, controlling and improving the health care management system. A line following robot carrying medicine has been designed for providing the medicine to the patient whenever they need it. A Line follower robot is an electronic system that can detect and follow the line drawn on the floor. Generally, the line is specified a predefined path that can be either visible like a black line on a white surface with a high contrasted color. Light dependent resistor sensor has been attached with the robot whose resistance varies with light intensity. When the LDR receives maximum amount of light then its resistance goes to its minimum value, ideally zero and when no light falling on the LDR then its resistance goes to its maximum value, ideally infinitive. A switch with IR sensor has been fitted near the patient, which connection has been made by the robot too. If the patient presses the switch then a flag bit set in the microcontroller, from which line following robot follows the line and got reached near the patient and provide the medicine to the patient with the help of dc motor. A proximity sensor also has been attached with the robot so that robot can detect any obstacle on their ways and can alarm. The ability to get someone around the clock is the best thing that this system can do. This technology focused on the delivery of safe, timely, efficient, effective, patient-centered and equitable health care. Index Terms— Health care; LDR; Medicine; IR Proximity sensor; Microcontroller; Comparator; DC motor; Motor driver; Alarm circuit. I. INTRODUCTION A health care system is defined as the organization of the people, resources and the institute to provide the health care services to the person or population. The goal of health care management system is to provide good health. For maintaining the health different organization, institutes, charities, religious and the government are planning around the world. This health care system also includes the hospitals, health care institution or clinics either these are operated by government, private for profit organization and Manuscript received Jul, 2013. Deepak Punetha, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chitkara University, Pinjore-Barotiwala Highway (NH-21A), Himachal Pradesh-174103, India. Neeraj Kumar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chitkara University, Pinjore-Barotiwala Highway (NH-21A), Himachal Pradesh-174103, India. Vartika Mehta, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Graphic Era University, Dehradun,Uttarakhand-248002, India. also private not for profit organizations. All around the world, many patients suffers because of to pay medical practitioners taken by the health care system. This health care system includes the health care staff personnel that are doctors, nurse, security guards, sweepers and many more. Figure 1. Line following robot with health care rooms. The fee for the medical practitioners depends on the service, medicine, capitation and the salary of the personnel. And also it is very difficult to continuous monitoring of the patients. That line following robot based health care management system can be very efficient to continuous monitoring to the patients, whenever they need any help or medicine. For continuous monitoring of the patients, health care system needs many personnel. From which the fee for the medical practitioner will hike. That robot based health care management system can reduce the fee for the patients so that they can easily pay that amount of money. II. MOTIVATION Around the world thousands of patients died because of not properly monitored them. Research shows that the number of patients died because of few numbers of trained medical staff [10]. Shortage of nurses is 'killing thousands a year': Patients in overstretched hospitals developing fatal complications which could have been cured [8]. A lot of hospitals have stopped recruiting nurses and medical personnel since 2005 and 2006. From the past two years there is an increasing trend of recruiting more doctors than the nurses. If sufficient number of nurses based on the patient numbers visiting a hospital are recruited than the number of deaths can be estimated decreased by 10 % [8]. Development and Applications of Line Following Robot Based Health Care Management System Deepak Punetha, Neeraj Kumar, Vartika Mehta