Using FHIR to develop a healthcare mobile application

Author

Lamprinakos, Georgios C. ; Mousas, Aziz S. ; Kapsalis, Andreas P. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I. ; Venieris, Iakovos S. ; Boufis, Anastasis D. ; Karmiris, Panagiotis D. ; Mantzouratos, Spyros G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

135

Abstract

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is considered to be an emerging Health Level 7 (HL7) standard that takes advantage of the positive elements of its ancestors HL7 v2 and HL7 v3. Moreover, FHIR is based on the REST architectural style, thus being suitable for lightweight devices. This paper presents the AidIT mobile application aiming at the effective management of patients´ electronic personal health records via an easy to use interface which can be accessed by multiple actors, namely the patient, the doctor and the pharmacist. We discuss the implementation benefits of using FHIR in order to integrate the mobile client and the application´s server side and we also provide insights into the access control mechanisms that should govern such applications.

Keywords

access control; electronic data interchange; electronic health records; health care; human computer interaction; mobile computing; open systems; security of data; standards; telemedicine; user interfaces; AidIT mobile application; FHIR implementation benefit; Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources; HL7 standard; HL7 v2; HL7 v3; Health Level 7 standard; REST architectural style; application access control mechanism; application server side; doctor access; easy-to-use interface; healthcare mobile application development; interface access; lightweight device; mobile client; patient access; patient electronic personal health record management; pharmacist access; Access control; Interoperability; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Mobile communication; Servers; Standards; FHIR; Healthcare informatics; REST; access control; mobile application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015927

Filename

7015927