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Building Mobile Health Applications Using Archetypes

Authors:
André Araújo
Valéria Times
Marcus Silva
Carlos Bezerra

Keywords: Graphical user interfaces; Interface generators; Mobile devices and services; Medical informatics; Archetypes.

Abstract:
The use of archetypes in the development of health applications standardizes the data attributes, terminologies, and constraints of the electronic health record, as well as improves the flexibility of health information systems. However, we have noticed in the literature that little attention has been given to researching tools that dynamically build mobile health applications using archetypes, which is what we present in this work - a cloud service for automatic generation of applications from archetypes. The approach hereby proposed specifies a mechanism that generates graphical user interfaces for mobile devices and creates relational data schemes for storing data in the cloud. In addition to that, we present a mobile application named Mobile4EHR that dynamically synchronizes the cloud-generated application with the mobile device, and creates the data schema that allows for local data storage. Finally, aiming to validate the service introduced in this paper, we selected available archetypes in the Open Electronic Health Record Foundation repository to build an application that registers patients’ vital signs. The main contributions of our research are i) making the patients’ clinical data registration more agile, and ii) reducing the dependence on programmers when creating mobile applications for the health sector.

Pages: 47 to 52

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-538-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017