TY - GEN
T1 - Consuming web services on mobile devices for improved mhealth
AU - Lomotey, Richard K.
AU - Deters, Ralph
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Healthcare practitioners are becoming the bigger consumer base for mHealth apps. The facilitation of healthcare practitioners to deliver quality healthcare using mobile technology in collaboration with other ICT tools is known as mHealth. Though the App Store is witnessing the deployment of so many health apps, most of the apps do not fit into the medical workflow of most health facilities. This is because, the health domain is a typical enterprise information system that is highly distributed with multiple services being composed for decision making. In this paper, we highlight some of the pressing concerns in a distributed mobile environment that hampers the efficient consumption of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) such as bandwidth fluctuations and intermittent connectivity losses. Then, generic mHealth architecture is proposed that aimed at tacking some of the problems based on the adoption of Web Services.
AB - Healthcare practitioners are becoming the bigger consumer base for mHealth apps. The facilitation of healthcare practitioners to deliver quality healthcare using mobile technology in collaboration with other ICT tools is known as mHealth. Though the App Store is witnessing the deployment of so many health apps, most of the apps do not fit into the medical workflow of most health facilities. This is because, the health domain is a typical enterprise information system that is highly distributed with multiple services being composed for decision making. In this paper, we highlight some of the pressing concerns in a distributed mobile environment that hampers the efficient consumption of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) such as bandwidth fluctuations and intermittent connectivity losses. Then, generic mHealth architecture is proposed that aimed at tacking some of the problems based on the adoption of Web Services.
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U2 - 10.1145/2525314.2525450
DO - 10.1145/2525314.2525450
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893448434
SN - 9781450325219
T3 - GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
SP - 410
EP - 413
BT - 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013
T2 - 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013
Y2 - 5 November 2013 through 8 November 2013
ER -