Mobile health Technology and Architecture(Kai-Lik Foh)

5 Technical Issues of Any Mobile Health Hotline Service:

1-Communication:

Consideration: 

    1.  Form factor of the device

          2. On-board capabilities .

      e.g: GPS (Location services needed)

    3. Operating System (OS) to handle processing

    4. On-board application (service on health application

     -depend on; type of OS and way app. is loaded onto device

    5. Multi- lingual capability

    6. Connectivity to other medical devices

     e.g : Bluetooth

    7. Power requirement for device 

    8. Device-side security

    9.On-SIM capabilities

2-Transmission:

Consideration:

          1.Format: video, text, data and video

          2.Protocol- GSM/CDMA

          3.Coverage

          4. Availability

          5.Bandwidth

  

     3- Identification

      Consideration:

        1. Server-side security

        2.  Identity

        3. Consent- Collects/shares medical record data

      

     4. Management

      Consideration:

        1.  Health Content Management

        2.  Health Knowledge Application

        3.  Health Service Directories:

-          Component in system : clinics, hospital/ emergency services

-          Through appointment scheduling services

        4. Billing and cost management

–            - Service, transaction, customer & corporate

        5. Service management

S   5. Storage

      Consideration:

       1.  Administrative data – Customer ID, billing history

       2. Health data – EMR/PHR/MHR

       3. Media –PACS

       4. Messaging standards-HL7

       5. Coding standards –for diagnoses + clinical content

    post: Monday, 12/11/12