AJAYI, Olusola Olajide et al, International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing, Vol.8 Issue.5, May- 2019, pg. 208-218 © 2019, IJCSMC All Rights Reserved 208 Available Online at www.ijcsmc.com International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing A Monthly Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology ISSN 2320–088X IMPACT FACTOR: 6.199 IJCSMC, Vol. 8, Issue. 5, May 2019, pg.208 – 218 A MOBILE BASED MEDICAL APPOINTMENT AND CONSULTATION (MMAC) SYSTEM AJAYI, Olusola Olajide 1 ; AKINRUJOMU, Oluwatobiloba Samuel 2 ; DASO, Olugbenga Samuel 3 ; AKINNIYI Olufunmilayo Paulina 4 ¹ ,2 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria ³ ,4 Health Centre Unit, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria 1 olusola.ajayi@aaua.edu.ng; 2 tobi.akinrujomu@aaua.edu.ng; 3 saydasho@yahoo.com; 4 akinniyifunmilayo@gmail.com Abstract— Medical appointment and consultation is of necessity in the field of medicine which gives the doctor the opportunity to access, examine, test and diagnose a patient of an ailment or diseases. Several researches have been done in this domain whereby some researches allow a patient to book an appointment with a particular doctor and majority of these researches only handle the appointment section of the work. This prompted the researcher to delve into a real-time appointment scheduling whereby a patient only fixes a time and date and the system allocate a doctor available at that particular time and date and also handles the rescheduling of patients with doctors. Also, the system integrates a live consultation with a doctor available online. The study adopted object-oriented analysis and design approach and implemented the mobile application using android studio which is an integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Google, and JAVA was used as the choice of programming language for the logic and the frontend while PHP and MySQL were used for the backend. The research work played a major contribution in the field of medicine which allows and enable the patient to have a real time scheduling of appointments with a doctor and also allows patient and doctors to come online and have conversation and interact together. Keywords— MHealth, Mobile Health, Medical Appointment, Medical Consultation, Medical Appointment and Consultation, Online Consultation, Appointment I. BACKGROUND Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) defined mHealth or mobile health as medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices (Medicine, 1990). mHealth is a major factor in providing personal toolkits that will help manage online medical appointment and also for medical consultation, enabled by technology, connectivity and data. Mobile health (mHealth) describes the use of portable electronic devices with software applications to provide health services and manage patient information. With approximately 5 billion mobile phone users globally, opportunities for mobile technologies to play a formal role in health services, particularly in low- and middle- income countries, are increasingly being recognized (Källander et al., 2013).