A Position Aware Mobile Application for E-Health Services

Large-scale distributed systems, such as e-healthcare, are difficult to develop due to their complex and decentralized nature. The service oriented architecture facilitates the development of such systems by supporting modular design, application integration and interoperation, and software reuse. This article describes a distributed e-healthcare system that uses the service-oriented architecture as a means of designing, implementing, and managing healthcare services. We present a cloud-based approach for the design of interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems and the concept of “m-health” is defined in transactions as “mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for healthcare.” We propose an EHR system—cloud health information systems technology architecture (CHISTAR) that achieves semantic interoperability through the use of a generic design methodology which uses a reference model that defines a general purpose set of data structures and an archetype model that defines the clinical data architecture. The m-health concept has become one of the key technological domains that reflect the key advances in remote healthcare and e-health systems. The m-health is currently bringing together major academic research and industry disciplines worldwide to achieve innovative solutions in the areas of healthcare delivery and technology sectors. The new and novel concept of 4G health and 5G technology that represents the long-term evolution of mhealth.

2010

Mobile devices are being considered as service platforms for mobile health information delivery, access and communication. However mobiles face challenges with regard to delivering secure multimedia based health services due to limitations in computation and power supply. Since mobile devices have limited computational capacity and run on small batteries, they are unable to run heavy multimedia & security algorithms. In this paper a cloud computing framework to relieve mobile devices from executing heavier multimedia and security algorithms in delivering mobile health services is described. The proposed framework uses a Cloud Computing protocol management model which intends to provide multimedia sensor signal processing & security as a service to mobile devices. Our approach suggests that multimedia and security operations can be performed in the cloud, allowing mobile health service providers to subscribe and extend the capabilities of their mobile health applications beyond the existing mobile device limitations.

Rapid changes in mobile cloud computing tremendously affect the telecommunication, education and healthcare industries and also business perspectives. Nowadays, advanced information and communication technology enhanced healthcare sector to improved medical services at reduced cost. However, issues related to security, privacy, quality of services and mobility and viability need to be solved before mobile cloud computing can be adopted in the healthcare industry. Mobile healthcare (m-Healthcare) is one of the latest technologies in the healthcare industry which enable the industry players to collaborate each other's especially in sharing the patience's medical reports and histories. M-Healthcare offer real-time monitoring and provide rapid diagnosis of health condition. User's context such as location, identities and etc which are collected by active sensor is important element in M-Healthcare. This paper conducts a study pertaining to mobile cloud healthcare, mobile healthcare and comparisons between the variety of applications and architecture developed/proposed by researchers.

To overcome drawbacks of traditional hospital management systems, this paper presents a new datamanagement system based on sensor networks and cloud computing. Cloud-computing features are included in the system's definition, framework and basic capabilities. The system is designed to tightly link various medical departments and coordinate among various medical institutions. Using sensor networks with mobile devices yields added flexibility and functionality for several medical-sensor devices and shows great practical potential. Employing healthcare information technology should lead to more efficient, safer, and higher-quality care. We believe a new scheme for cooperation between data, devices, and systems is mandated. This scenario requires that a variety of information from different sources be integrated. The data comes from several separate sources, ranging from patient monitors to sensors located nearby that provide environmental data, electronic medical records stored by the hospital, hospital administrative information, and financial and healthcare resource management. Indeed, technology currently implemented by the network wireless microcontroller supports this kind of healthcare data management. In this light, we present a network layer and a middleware layer for sensor networks to support such networking and data management here.

2016

In the past few years it was clear that mobile cloud computing was established via integrating both mobile computing and cloud computing to be add in both storage space and processing speed. Integrating healthcare applications and services is one of the vast data approaches that can be adapted to mobile cloud computing. This work proposes a framework of a global healthcare computing based combining both mobile computing and cloud computing. This approach leads to integrate all of the required services and overcoming the barriers through facilitating both privacy and security.

IEEE, 2019

We as a human can not avoid the disease, and when we are sick, we need to see a practical doctor. However, in term of location and patient's right for changing the practical doctor, then the patient when moving from one practical doctor to others will have similar and repeated questions such as medicine allergy, history of diseases and so on. Moreover, become a problem for a vulnerable patient such as unconscious patient, disabled or elderly when seeing a new practical doctor and at the end of the day, it will become malpractice. Few of the causes of the problem above are the lack of health education, delay in diagnosing/misdiagnosis, and inaccessible healthcare facilities and with the increasing popularity of telemedicine and IoT across the world, then we need to apply IoT in order to help the patient. In this paper, a framework is created and designed for an IoT-integrated mobile application for the patient where this mobile application is expected to be implemented.

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Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are an emerging software platform that blurs the line between web service and native application, and is a powerful tool for handheld device deployment. By democratizing health data management and widening its availability, this software platform has the potential to revolutionize telemedicine, clinical practice, medical education and information distribution, particularly in rural areas, and to make patient-centric medical computing a reality. In this paper, we propose a telemedicine application that leverages the ability of a mobile RIA platform to transcode, organise and present textual and multimedia data, which are sourced from medical database software. We adopted a web-based approach to communicate, in real-time, with an established hospital information system via a custom RIA. The proposed solution allows communication between handheld devices and a hospital information system for media streaming with support for real-time encryption, on any...

Nationwide health information exchange (NHIE) continues to be a persistent concern for government agencies, despite the many efforts and the conceived benefits of sharing patient data among healthcare providers. Difficulties in ensuring global connectivity, interoperability, and concerns on security have always hampered the government from successfully deploying NHIE. By looking at NHIE from a fresh perspective and bearing in mind the pervasiveness and power of modern mobile platforms, this paper proposes a new approach to NHIE that builds on the notion of consumer-mediated HIE, albeit without the focus on central health record banks. With the growing acceptance of smartphones as reliable, indispensable, and most personal devices, we suggest to leverage the concept of mobile personal health records (PHRs installed on smartphones) to the next level. We envision mPHRs that take the form of distributed storage units for health information, under the full control and direct possession of patients, who can have ready access to their personal data whenever needed. However, for the actual exchange of data with health information systems managed by healthcare providers, the latter have to be interoperable with patient-carried mPHRs. Computer industry has long ago solved a similar problem of interoperability between peripheral devices and operating systems. We borrow from that solution the idea of providing special interfaces between mPHRs and provider systems. This interface enables the two entities to communicate with no change to either end. The design and operation of the proposed approach is explained. Additional pointers on potential implementations are provided, and issues that pertain to any solution to implement NHIE are discussed.

Bangladesh has made significant progress to achieve millennium development goals on many frontiers. However the task is not finished yet and the country can overhaul the service quality of its healthcare sector taking assistance of various mobile based information technology tools. It is a common problem in many parts of Bangladesh that unregistered doctors taking advantage of people’s ignorance provide medical consultation services. While such practice can inflict serious medical damages to the person being treated, hence it must stop. In order to help general public from mistakenly seeking medical consultation from an unregistered doctor we have tried to implement a prototypical mobile health care application that combines the possibilities to search nearest registered doctor, pharmacy, diagnostic centre, clinic and hospital. This application can also facilitate e-prescription transmission among doctors, patients and other relevant stakeholders. This paper describes the requirements for such a system, details its implementation. An in-depth literature review of the topics of mHealth and software engineering challenges to develop mobile application were also conducted to achieve the objectives of this paper.

— The Online Healthcare System can be enhanced significantly by including most recent Information technology. The use of smartphones is increasing every day and is available with the people spread across different demographics. People can access health records online by just one click. This paper proposes a model of designing flexible e-healthcare management system based on Cloud Computing. The elastic nature of cloud permits infinite number of users to access the cloud simultaneously without any limitations. The Healthcare System is implemented in two interfaces: the patient interface and the doctor interface. The patient's interface allows patients to create, manage, control and share their health information with respective doctors. Finally, the system proposed is efficient as it improves cost management, time, storing patients profile, and provides security to patient's medical records, book appointments and consult the right doctor online.