IT110

Course Work # 3 (Revised)

Bergantin, Nathan (IT-3)
Buenaventura, Arvin (IT-3)

May 26, 2015

mHealth Program
Professor Mideth B. Abisado

General Purpose: To influence my readers the possible future of Medical Care.

Specific Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine what are the impacts of
digital Medicare and its distribution of public health care in
the country.
Central Idea: Now is the time that we should focus more on improving our
health. By doing such, we must not sacrifice data privacy by
complying with the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) and offer the best Quality of service
(QoS).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................2
Orienting Material.....................................................................................................................................3
BODY............................................................................................................................................................3
I. An Interactive Search System for Healthcare Services..............................................................................3
A. Electronic Medical Record retrieval systems........................................................................................4
B. Medical Retrieval System Design.........................................................................................................4
C. Medical Retrieval Model.......................................................................................................................6
D. Medical Retrieval Algorithm................................................................................................................7
II. Doctors Search Engine based on ICD-10 (10th International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
Related Health Problems)..............................................................................................................................8
A. Classification of the doctors specialty field..........................................................................................8
B. Construction of the specialist registration system..................................................................................8
C. Construction of Doctors Search Engine.................................................................................................8
III. Data Processing....................................................................................................................................... 8
A. A Framework for Web-based Interactive Applications of High-Resolution 3D Medical Image
Data................................................................................................................................................................8
B. Real-time monitoring of patients on remote sites................................................................................11
C. Using 3rd party services to provide a secure web-based medical environment...................................11
References....................................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Health, an issue that has plagued doctors over the past centuries. In today's day and age, Information
Technology has set the bar on healthcare even further, with the help of the World Wide Web, or more
collectively known as the Internet has bridged the gap between patients and doctors alike. But the same
can be said with all possibly new consequences that IT has brought along with it. With today's technology
people have become ever increasingly lazy due to the fact that machines and computers do most of the
work for us, thus, making them more vulnerable to certain diseases and illnesses. Doctors have made an
attempt to remedy this situation, or rather, a quickfix so to speak by making them known and providing
their services worldwide through the use of web-based healthcare systems.

Unfortunately, prior attempts have fallen short due to various complexities and overestimations, and some
of them include lack of equipment, this is mostly only a problem for third-world countries who cannot
afford to buy the latest equipment. Connectivity is a concern for every country, companies pay a royalty
for the fastest internet connection possible, hospitals and emergency clinics who desires to help people
globally through the use of the internet will have to pay for top-notch networking equipments to handle
the massive surge internet packets coming from thousands, if not, millions of users worldwide who wants
to avail for their medical services.

All the stated problems above involves cost, and most of the times, it wouldn't be a problem because
equipments are mostly bought once and will be used for a long time. The problem arises when
maintenance takes place. It takes both precious time and money to maintain the equipment needed for the
information system to perform as expected, and to be on its maximum performance. And most of the
time, the cost of maintain these equipment costs more than what the pay doctors and nurses for their
professional fees. Developing countries would be in an even worse footing because of all theses stacking
costs of equipment, maintenance, and subsequent fees.

Countries who are able on the other hand, such as the United States, were able to create a nationwidescale healthcare system through the ever controversial Obamacare Website. The website was made as an
attempt to consolidate most of the paperwork into digital form, making it easier for patients to acquire
medical care on the go, and in the safety of their homes. The problem is that the attempt wasn't properly
implemented, plagued with both hardware, software, and networking issues , such as, improper billing,
wrong placement of medical records, slow order processing, and multiple congestions that slows the
system down to a halt.

This paper is meant to inform readers about the attempts in making an actual, and realistically easy-to-use
healthcare website by taking all of the positives from previous attempts, incorporate it into our healthcare
system, all the while taking out all the negatives that plagued theirs.
Attention Material

A. Healthcare and medical emergency in human life.

1. Many countries work towards it.
B. Difficulty with patient records
1. Records are kept in file cabinets even today.
2. Developing countries lack the necessary equipment.
C. Advancement in mobile technology
1. Faster, lighter, more convenient patient healthcare requires full computerization
of records.
Orienting Material

A. There have been prior attempts in creating an easier, more mobile friendly approach to
medical healthcare.
1. Momeda, Ambulance Project, Emergency-112, Multimedia Telemedicine
System, Project E-vita, just to name a few. All of which are built around mobility,
cost reduction, and reduced treatment times.
B. Collection and sharing of medical data from a variety of medical sensors with low latency
is a challenge for most developing countries.
C. The Internet of Things
1. Traditionally, Desktops and Laptops have acted as a gateway between medical
sensors and back-end platforms(i.e transferring ECG readings to a database using
a laptop)
2. The problem with PCs and Laptops is that it is more suited for inhouse work,
with the use of mobile phones and applications, solutions become more pervasive
and portable.

BODY
I. An Interactive Search System for Healthcare Services.

A. Electronic Medical Record retrieval systems

1. Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) - consists of knowledge sources and databases
of medical vocabularies that allows one to translate various terminologies found in the
medical field. [1].

1.1 askMEDLINE is a free-text, natural language query tool for clients who
doesnt have background knowledge on medical terms used in the program.

*The picture above is a screenshot from askMEDLINE website

askMEDLINE provides patients with brief understanding of what their illnesses are and to potentially
avoid another encoundter with the disease. Users who wants to know and understand different kinds
disease terminologies and brief medical terms can visit their website for free with little to no cost.

1.2. MEDLINE and PubMed are Medical literature database systems.

* The picture above is a screenshot from askMEDLINE website (After searching for )

Searched articles are provided with citations and references for patients to further understand and explore
upon the topic if they so desire.
Other practitioners on the same medical field will have access to more useful information.
Such articles are stored within databases for easier retrieval of information.

B. Medical Retrieval System Design

1. Applying medical knowledge-bases facilitate in increasing productivity in a medical
environment, support the making of diagnoses and other types of medical decisions,
assist in the training of medical professionals, and can even handle some routine tasks in
a medical environment. [13].

2. Knowing user queries Identifying the type of data inquiry depending on the user needs. [7].

*The picture above is based on the SAP Prototype in handling EMRs

Mobile devices have become powerful enough to process information and access databases like a laptop or
a computer.
T
1.1 Common user queries The client user interface design

*The picture above is based on the SAP Prototype in handling EMRs

Softwares suitable for mobile gives an easier, faster, a more go-to approach in handling patient records,
particulary useful for emergencies.
This allows both doctors and their clients to access their respective data in keeping track of their health
records. This eliminates most of the hassle from previous methods of retrieving data.

1.2 Expert user queries The Doctors Electronic Medical Record for the patient
C. Medical Retrieval Model

*The picture above is based on the Medical Retrieval Model [1]

From the model, patients requests a query for available doctors, doctor's information and availability will
be retrieved by the IRS from the medical database. From there the patient will be given out a list of
available doctors and their specialized field for their choosing. Upon a successful treatment, patients
and doctors can provide their feedback, and that feedback will be stored inside the medical database
for future reference for the patient's previous disease and treatment, as well as the doctor's rating.

1. Problem Statement. Problems encountered by existing systems [1]

1.1 Systems searching accuracy
1.2 Defining dynamic objective of users Identifying the Users secondary idea

2. Search Algorithms [1], [2]

2.1 Goal based - a temporal difference algorithm to predict users information needs by
incorporating both current and predicted knowledge into learning the user profile.
2.2 Alternative based - The ANNs-based engine [5] was experimentally proven to be the
most prominent one for handling data from alternative sources,
2.3 Feedback based - The goal of the system is to maximize the total feedback
submissions received by the end of the session.

3. Interactive Retrieval System Architecture [1], [14]

*The picture above is based on the Medical Retrieval System Architecture [1]

From the image, the IRS handles and ranks articles based on user preference, history, subejct of interest to
be searched for, and results will be given to the user from the medical database.

3.1 Document Scoring

3.2 User profiling

D. Medical Retrieval Algorithm [10]

1. Implementation Issues Issues encountered by existing systems
1.1 State space size The set of values that a single process can take.
1.2 Session Length Impact A sorting algorithm experiment based on the actual
transaction time.
1.3 Feedback Size Impact A sorting algorithm experiment based on the users
feedback.

2. Sarsa Algorithm for IIR - State-Action-Reward-State-Action [14]

*The picture above is based on the SARSA Algorithm for IIR [141]

The algorithm used for querying and prioritizing user requests

2.1 Trained Value function used to select a set of places or countries which are ideal
candidates for acquiring relevant information

II. Doctors Search Engine based on ICD-10 (10th International Statistical Classification of
Diseases and Related Health Problems)

*The picture above is based on the proposed Doctor Search Engine [2]

Search results are processed and gives out a list of available doctors and their specialized field and
relational field depending on the user's input.

A. Classification of the doctors specialty field [2]

1.

Doctors relational field

2.

Doctors specialty field

B. Construction of the specialist registration system

1.

Creating the database

C. Construction of Doctors Search Engine

1.

Creating a suitable algorithm

2.

Testing and implementation

III. Data Processing

A. A Framework for Web-based Interactive Applications of High-Resolution 3D Medical
Image Data [4-8]
1. Types of medical data that can be processed

1.1. Magnetic resonance imaging a test which produces detailed images of soft
tissues, bones and other internal body structures
1.2. Picture archiving and communication system - a medical imaging technology
that provides convenient access to images from multiple systems.

2. Existing systems
2.1. MACOSTAT

*The picture above is the user interface of MediTouch Medical Care System

2.2. MediTouch

*The picture above is the user interface of prognoCIS running on Linux Operating System

Meditouch is a web-based management system, it offers a powerful medical billing functionality. The system
automatically checks patients' insurance eligibility for 72 hours hours before appointments.

2.3. prognoCIS

*The picture above is NueMD Medical Billing System Company Logo

2.4. NueMD

*The picture above is the kareo Medical Database System Company Logo

2.5. Kareo

3. Proposed Framework [4]

3.1. Data Storage Algorithm [7]

3.1.1.

Octree partitioning and labeling - are used for the correct

representation of solid objects in a 3D environment, and are the
basis for many modeling

3.1.2.

Minimum Bounding Box (MBB) - The minimum bounding box

of a point set is the same as the minimum bounding box of
its convex hull

3.1.3.

Hilbert Curve - a continuous fractal space-filling curve

3.1.4.

Huffman coding - a particular type of optimal prefix code that

is commonly used for lossless data compression.

3.1.5.

LempelZivWelch - a universal lossless data compression

algorithm

3.1.6.

JPEG - method of lossy compression for digital images

3.1.7.

JPEG 2000 - is an image compression standard and coding

system.

3.2. Data Access Optimization

3.3.
3.3.1.

Incremental transmission

3.3.2.

Group Access

B. Real-time monitoring of patients on remote sites [8]

1. Functional Requirements [9]
1.1. Communication
1.2. Data Access
2. Existing monitoring systems
2.1. Monitoring Information Service (MIS) 2.2. Vital Sign Monitoring Service (VSMS) 2.3. Multimedia Consulting Service (MCS) 3. System Configuration

C. Using 3rd party services to provide a secure web-based medical environment

1. Existing Trusted Third party Services (TTP). [12]

1.1. EUROMEDI+

1.2. EUDAMED

1.3. INFOSEC

2. Security Threats [9]

2.1. Java Security Issues
2.1.1.

Downloading or accessing the code in mobile apps. security

threats while downloading or accessing codes

2.1.2.

Code Execution issues concerning the execution of an applet

which includes the users local resources

2.1.3.

Network communication issues concerning back-end data

privacy

3. Security Enhancements [8-12]

3.1.1.

Directory Services for Applet Certification ensures the

authenticity and integrity of applets

3.1.2.

Source Code Certification validates the source code

3.1.3.

Vawing Levels of Trust overcomes execution issues under the

users computer

3.1.4.

Secure Applet Communications secures communication

between applets and servers

3.1.5.

Access Control Management allows privileged applets to access

the server

3.1.6.

One-time keys for anonymous services secures the users

account when accessed through a different device

3.1.7.

Other Communication services integrates to existing medical

systems.

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