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.

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Mobile technology is playing a significant role in transforming the healthcare domain and enabling a new era of digital healthcare ecosystem. In healthcare, tablets are replacing the conventional paper-based way of tracking patient's record. These devices are not only used to collect user's inputs as events, they can perform various analytical computations and provide an instant output in order to meet investigator's need. As these tablets are interacting over wireless networks, the communication often suffers intermittent connection loss. This can prevent tablets from successfully propagating event data. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for disseminating events among mobile participants. Our architecture has two contributions -first, it addresses the challenge of Wi-Fi network while synchronizing data among tablets, and second, it develops a RESTful architecture assuming that only HTTP like protocol is used in event dissemination. Our framework adopts PInGO (Pain Information on the Go) application that has been developed in research collaboration with Bioinformatics Research Lab at University of Saskatchewan for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) patients. Patient's inputs from the application were used in disseminating event data within the proposed framework.

The health sector is one of the primary beneficiaries of the smartphone and tablet boom. These devices are employed by the healthcare professionals to facilitate varying forms of healthcare delivery known as m-Health. But more specifically, these devices are used as medical data consumption nodes. However, mobile devices primarily communicate over wireless mediums and this leads to undesired communication latency in large mobile distributed systems due to the intermittent loss in connectivity.Since m-Health is a mission critical information system, this paper proposes a novel events-oriented mobile cloud computing framework that facilitates near real-time data propagation. The medical records are modeled as events which are disseminated to the healthcare professionals following the publish/subscribe technique. The WebSocket connection is also put forward ahead of the asynchronous polling technique in order to minimize latency. The evaluation of the architecture shows that the healthcare professionals are able to send medical data in a lowlatency fashion compared to other existing techniques such as the HTTP polling and long-polling techniques.