Web Access to Hospital Medical Data using Wireless Networks

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Web Access to Hospital Medical Data using
Wireless Networks

• G. N. Triantafyllou, T. P. Kostoulas, L. T.
  Kolovou, E. I. Karavatselou, M. N. Koukias, and
  D.K. Lymperopoulos
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Patras, GR 261 10, Patras, Hellas

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Organization

• The presented work is organized as
• Introduction in Telemedicine - Requirements
• Web applications Structure
• Services developed
• System architecture
• Conclusion

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Introduction Existing Telemedicine Systems

• Distributed Geographical Areas
• Novice doctors
• Expert medical help required
• Telemedicine Systems
• Assist non-expert personnel in Decision-Making
• Medical Data Transfer

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Telemedicine Requirements

• Medical Data Centralization
• Wide Scale Accessibility
• Outside Hospital (office) limits
• Optimal Data Organization
• Centralized Patient Heath Record (PHR)
• Mobile Access to PHR
• Facilitate Diagnosis making

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Implementation (1)

• Web design
• Internet Site to achieve doctors requirements
• Access to
• Services
• Content
• Web Implementation ensures remote accessibility

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Implementation (2)

• Wireless access
• Remote Data Retrieval
• Mobility PHR Access
• Protocols
• Bluetooth
• 802.11g
• WAP

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Services (1)

• Patient Data Monitoring - History
• Requirements
• Accurate records
• Constant access
• Patient Personal Data
• Medical Files
• Visits - Exams

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Services (2)

• Web implemented clinic organization
• Remote - Mobile Access
• Patient Monitoring - Demographics modification
• Patient history registration
• allergies
• lifestyle
• personal medical history

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Services (3)

• Advantages
• Easy storage - retrieval
• Data Cross Reference
• Medical Monitoring
• Fully Electronic clinic organization

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Services - Patient Exams

• Patient Exams
• Medical Exams Registration
• Clinical Exams (Seven types)
• Multimedia Data Types
• Compact exams viewing
• Patient ID based search
• Advantages
• Exams Centralization Web interface
• Cross Reference Exams
• Safe Data keeping

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Services - Doctor calendar

• Doctor calendar
• Personal Calendar
• Personal Notes
• Appointments
• Advantages
• Exams Organization
• Grouping by Date

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System architecture (1)

• Oracles three-tier architecture
• user access, authentication
• retrieval mechanisms
• data storage
• 1st tier (database)
• User data - Metadata
• Transaction Management
• Serve user site requests
• 2nd tier (system modules)
• applications - web services
• request processing

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System architecture (2)

• 3rd tier (client tier)
• browsers
• web services
• back office applications
• J2EE platform
• Flexible security model
• Simplified architecture
• Data management processes
• SSL protocol - SSO Server

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Wireless communication architecture
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Conclusion

• The developed services offer
• Concentration of the medical data
• Web Mobile access.
• Server transactions, PHR creation.
• Calendar Exams organizations
• Wireless protocols compliancy

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• Thank you