A Service Oriented Tele-health Promotion Information System with Mobile Application

Obesity has become an important health issue in Taiwan due to its increasing prevalence among population and the patients are getting younger. In this research, we build a health care information system, named the Pauian Health, for people who were on diet and to control their weight, or others to keep in shape. The Pauian Health is designed based on model–view–controller (MVC) pattern with a proposed architecture framework and has been successfully implemented in Pauian Archiland Company. The architecture centralizes the functions of accessing databases, user identification, and the validation of inherited clinical knowledge in a single component. Under this architecture, the system ensures its scalability, extensibility, data consistency, and the ability of cross-platform. This architecture has also been implemented in different devices and platforms, including iPhone, iPad and website. The architecture also supports unstable network environment, which uses Token as session identifier and user validation. The proposed framework has the potential in duplicating the service for different targeted users or deployed as a cloud service, which is fully capable in extending the service in the future.