A modeling approach of web-based mobile parking guidance system and secured EHR in e-Healthcare

To perform research and experiment in enhancing the timeliness and efficiency of providing healthcare service in e-Healthcare, a modeling approach is designed and implemented to integrate a parking guidance system (PGS) with an electronic health record (EHR) system. The integrated system provides advanced services for two healthcare groups: 1) patients who need immediate urgent care, and 2) healthcare providers who perform emergency medical services and operations. By entering a zip code of a selected area and patient´s basic data, the system would return the three most optimal urgent care providers in the selected area, from which the user of the system can choose and submit essential patient´s data to; the system would then return three progressive levels of navigation information: 1) from home to hospital, 2) at hospital´s parking facility, and 3) inside hospital; furthermore, the system would reserve a parking space and complete registration prior to the patient´s arrival at the hospital´s urgent care facility. To provide efficient and convenient e-healthcare services, the integrated system must be available on mobile devices; hence, the server has been implemented as a Web service server, and a mobile Web service client, along with its desktop counterpart, is a part of the integrated system. Lastly, this integrated system addresses various security issues in privacy, integrity and confidentiality of the patient´s medical record data.