A MOBILE APPLICATION ACCESSING PATIENTS’ HEALTH RECORDS THROUGH A REST API - How REST-Style Architecture can Help Speed up the Development of Mobile Health Care Applications

Abstract

Mobile devices offer new ways for users to access health care data and services in a secure and user-friendly environment. These new applications must be easy to create, deploy, test and maintain, and they must rely on a scalable and easily integrated infrastructure. In this paper we present the motivations and technical choices for creating a REST API integrated with a mobile application (iPhone/iPad) that offer physicians, access to their patients' health records via a community, regional or state Health Information Exchange (HIE). We describe the architecture of the system, including how we address security and privacy concerns, the REST API operations and HL7 subset data format used for lab results and observations. We also explain why the early use of unit tests and integration tests were essential to the success of the project.

Back-End System Design Based on Rest Api

“…Web service yang didalamnya mengandung REST API dapat diintergrasikan di perangkat mobile untuk mendukung interoperabilitas [15] yang dapat diakses di perangkat mobile android ataupun iOS. Web service dapat digunakan juga untuk penggunaan teknologi Change Data Capture (CDC) yang merangkum sumber data dengan satu set web service [16] Berbeda dari penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya, dalam penelitian ini, sistem Back-End akan dibuat dalam bentuk server Back-End berbasis REST API [17], [18] [19], [20].…”