Developing novel design patterns in information visualization for mobile health systems

With the advances of information technology, there´re broad prospects for mobile health information systems. In mobile health, information visualization plays an important role. The challenges are supporting heterogeneous devices, meeting a variety of user requirements and so on. Design patterns provide an effective solution to these problems. However, in mobile health area, there is seldom a systematic approach applying the design patterns to implement information visualization. In this paper, we elaborate how design patterns are applied to execute information visualization of mobile health systems. We present a modified MVC pattern according to requirements of the system. We also propose a “regulation-composite” pattern based on general-purpose patterns. By using both patterns, we actualize a visualization platform of mobile health system and facilitate its extensibility and flexibility. The methods used in this paper can provide a strategy for information visualization.