Design and implementation of customized spatial information provider system for chronic disease patients based on PHR

Abstract

A system that provides tailored spatial information for chronic disease patients who require health self-management using Personal Health Record (PHR) information is proposed. PHRs, standard document structures and spatial information were analyzed for the system design; the structure of the messages were defined and based on the analysis results, exchanged in the customized spatial information provision system; and the exchange protocol and motion process of the customized spatial information provision system for the chronic disease patients were designed. To realize the proposed system, Eclipse Juno, JDK, the Android platform, Java and JSP were used in the Windows 7 operating system. In addition, the message exchange structure based on the PHR standard document was defined to materialize a spatial information exchange protocol; and based on such protocol, a customized spatial information provision system that includes a service spatial information module, a user information management module and a tailored spatial information matching module was realized. To verify the performance of the designed and realized system, tests were conducted on the exchange messages of the customized spatial information provision system and the mobility of the modules that provide the tailored spatial information for health self-management. The test results confirmed that the response messages were properly exchanged according to the requested messages, the service space where a user logged into the service using a smart device was recognized, and the matching modules for the service space management, user information management and customized spatial information were properly working. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.