Authors:
Francois Andry
;
Lin Wan
and
Daren Nicholson
Affiliation:
Axolotl Corp., United States
Keyword(s):
Mobile Application, Health Records, RHIO, Lab Results, HL7, REST API, Web Services, JAX-RS, Security.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Electronic Health Records and Standards
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Mobile devices offer new ways for users to access health care data and services in a secure and user-friendly environment. These new applications must be easy to create, deploy, test and maintain, and they must rely on a scalable and easily integrated infrastructure. In this paper we present the motivations and technical choices for creating a REST API integrated with a mobile application (iPhone/iPad) that offer physicians, access to their patients’ health records via a community, regional or state Health Information Exchange (HIE). We describe the architecture of the system, including how we address security and privacy concerns, the REST API operations and HL7 subset data format used for lab results and observations. We also explain why the early use of unit tests and integration tests were essential to the success of the project.