A dissemination-based mobile web application framework for juvenile ideopathic arthritis patients

Abstract

Adopting mobile technologies in assisting healthcare is opening new possibilities in medical health domain through bringing a dramatic shift from conventional paper-based tracking to electronic tracking and evaluation system. Health information systems have the potential to offer greater improvement in collecting and accessing relevant information, disseminating data among health practitioners and patients in a reliable and secure manner with faster speed and analyzing them efficiently. In this paper we have proposed and implemented a prototypical client-server based health information framework that allows both clinicians and patients to send data to a centralized backend system database and have access to those data when needed. Our framework adopts mobile electronic pain diary named PInGO for juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients to report their health conditions to the clinicians. Our framework offers secure, reliable and fast dissemination and access of these data through leveraging the latest push-based Web technology and RESTful web services. From our preliminary experiment results it has been observed that data dissemination using RESTful web services within event-based publish-subscribe domain provides greater performance improvement comparing to traditional pull-based data dissemination over Web.