FHIR FLI: An Open Source Platform for Storing, Sharing and Analysing Lifestyle Data

Kiran Gopinathan, Nikolaos Alexandros Kaloumenos, Kinnari Ajmera, Alexandru Matei, Ian Williams, Andrew Davis

2018

Abstract

Consumers and healthcare organisations alike are increasingly interested in using digital health solutions to reduce the risk of chronic conditions or to help manage these conditions outside hospitals. Equally, there is a strong public health benefit in helping individuals adopt and improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The first step in this direction is the ability to record and analyse lifestyle data. Currently, lifestyle logging platforms use proprietary data formats. Data is segregated among different platforms, impacting consumers, service providers, research institutes and public health bodies. Our aim is to facilitate the transfer of information between individuals and organisations that hold or require their lifestyle data. We demonstrate that an open source platform based on a clinically recognised interoperability standard - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) - can meet both consumers and industry needs. We use as an example the case of people managing arthritis. Our contributions are: (i) an extension of the FHIR standard for lifestyle data, (ii) a reference architecture for a Personal Lifestyle Record, (iii) integration with voice-enabled digital assistants for lifestyle data capture and (iv) an open source implementation of this architecture that retrieves, saves and analyses lifestyle data from wearable devices.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gopinathan K., Kaloumenos N., Ajmera K., Matei A., Williams I. and Davis A. (2018). FHIR FLI: An Open Source Platform for Storing, Sharing and Analysing Lifestyle Data.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-299-8, pages 227-233. DOI: 10.5220/0006791302270233

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe18,
author={Kiran Gopinathan and Nikolaos Alexandros Kaloumenos and Kinnari Ajmera and Alexandru Matei and Ian Williams and Andrew Davis},
title={FHIR FLI: An Open Source Platform for Storing, Sharing and Analysing Lifestyle Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2018},
pages={227-233},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006791302270233},
isbn={978-989-758-299-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - FHIR FLI: An Open Source Platform for Storing, Sharing and Analysing Lifestyle Data
SN - 978-989-758-299-8
AU - Gopinathan K.
AU - Kaloumenos N.
AU - Ajmera K.
AU - Matei A.
AU - Williams I.
AU - Davis A.
PY - 2018
SP - 227
EP - 233
DO - 10.5220/0006791302270233