Open SOA health web platform for mobile medical apps: Connecting securely mobile devices with distributed electronic health records and medical systems

Doctors and nurses have become amenable and increasingly keen of using smart mobile devices and applications for health delivery support to their patients. The main challenge is to securely connect to the patient´s electronic health records in time when patient health data are needed and to access patient´s vital data online for coordinated and individual healthcare delivery. Here, we report about a service-oriented open health Web platform that has been developed for distributed systems, devices and medical IT-services. The open SOA Web platform is suited to host mobile medical apps, which provide automated online access to the vital sign data of the patient and support guided procedures to treat the patients according to individual treatment regimes. A mobile medic app for wound management IT is described that connects to the electronic wound case record of the selected patient. The app supports the healthcare professional during treatment and facilitates the documentation process.