Paper Info
Title
A Cardiovascular Patient Follow-Up System Using Twitter And Hl7
Abstract
This project aimed at designing and developing a system for following-up cardiovascular patients integrating a social media (Twitter) and a healthcare communications standard (HL7 v2.x). Two applications - an android-based tool for gathering and tweeting vital cardiovascular signs and a Java-based desktop tool for receiving and parsing the information - were created within the framework of this project. The two applications developed provided a feasible prototype for following-up cardiovascular patients. A number of considerations concerning this novel approach are discussed in this paper. The modification of the health care flow empowers the patient and enhances the patient-physician communication. On the other hand, both patients and physicians may be reluctant to use the system as a daily basis due to security and privacy concerns. In any case, using a healthcare standard such as HL7 assures an extra layer of interoperability and makes the integration with existing information systems easier. The use of health care standards in conjunction with social media provides user-friendly applications that help bridge the gap in the patient-physician communication in a standard-compliant fashion. However, some research questions are still open and further projects are needed to guarantee the secure use of social media in health care.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
2013 COMPUTING IN CARDIOLOGY CONFERENCE (CINC)
java,open systems,data privacy,cardiology
Field
DocType
Volume
Health care,Information system,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Android (operating system),Social media,Computer science,Interoperability,Information privacy,Open system (systems theory),Java
Conference
40
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-8861
3
0.41
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesús Daniel Trigo1677.84
Aitor Eguzkiza271.19
Miguel Martínez-Espronceda3142.83
Luis Serrano471.19