Research Article
Using FHIR to develop a healthcare mobile application
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257232, author={Georgios Lamprinakos and Aziz Mousas and Anastasis Boufis and Panagiotis Karmiris and Spyros Mantzouratos and Andreas Kapsalis and Dimitra Kaklamani and Iakovos Venieris}, title={Using FHIR to develop a healthcare mobile application}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={healthcare informatics fhir rest mobile application access control}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257232} }- Georgios Lamprinakos
Aziz Mousas
Anastasis Boufis
Panagiotis Karmiris
Spyros Mantzouratos
Andreas Kapsalis
Dimitra Kaklamani
Iakovos Venieris
Year: 2014
Using FHIR to develop a healthcare mobile application
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257232
Abstract
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is considered to be an emerging Health Level 7 (HL7) standard that takes advantage of the positive elements of its ancestors HL7 v2 and HL7 v3. Moreover, FHIR is based on the REST architectural style, thus being suitable for lightweight devices. This paper presents the AidIT mobile application aiming at the effective management of patients' electronic personal health records via an easy to use interface which can be accessed by multiple actors, namely the patient, the doctor and the pharmacist. We discuss the implementation benefits of using FHIR in order to integrate the mobile client and the application's server side and we also provide insights into the access control mechanisms that should govern such applications.