A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PERSONALIZED AND MOBILE HEALTH CARE

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sadasivam, Rajani S. | Tanik, Murat M. | Willig, James

Affiliations: Division of Continuing Medical Education and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Abstract: The widespread adoption of cell phones and other mobile platforms represent an opportunity to extend the benefits of personalized point-of-care healthcare applications to providers and patients in the developing world. However, the challenges facing the effective deployment of mobile health care applications are complex; thus, requiring a scalable, flexible, and configurable approach. A conceptual framework based on service-oriented-architecture is proposed to address the challenges of developing and deploying mobile health care applications. A particular emphasis of the framework is a service-agent-modeling-based personalized process support that is needed to support the diverse needs of the users.

Keywords: mobile health care, point-of-care healthcare, service-oriented-architecture

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 31-41, 2008