A study on the realization of mobile homecare nursing service based on effective security

Abstract

Demands on homecare nursing are on the rise due to increase of medical demand for the aged; however, as the homecare nursing should provide service by visiting home, there are limits in the IT infra that manages and inquires the medical information of patients in current situations. This paper developed an application for inquiring about the information of patients and homecare nursing patient clients in the middle of medical services thanks to the recent development of mobile service, and improved the safety of service by applying an effective security method suitable for mobile platform. As homecare nurses can confirm the details of homecare nursing requests, inquiries by reserved patients, progress records, etc. at home in real time, it is likely possible that a good quality of homecare nursing service that provides tailored information according to the patients' status is realized. © 2013 SERSC.