How the 2006-2008 Projects Used the Common Platform
University of Rochester
The team from the University of Rochester has provided example Common Platform client code and has written a simplified Java API for personal health application (PHA) clients to test the Common Platform functionality. Their prototype PHA can optionally interact with the Common Platform to store and retrieve observations relevant to the user’s “daily checkup’’ information.
Visit the Personal Health Management Assistant project page.
TRUE Research Foundation
The team from TRUE has used the platform to store patient demographics, medications, and multiple observation types. Observations included daily consumed food, blood glucose measurements from a continuous glucose device, and physical activity from a physical activity monitor. The daily consumed food observations included photographs of meals eaten (for journaling purposes) with some basic nutrition information, such as carbohydrate and calorie content. The blood glucose measurements consisted of the glucose reading and the recorded date/time. The physical activity data consisted of the heart rate, number of steps taken, metabolic equivalents (Mets) expended, and the recorded date/time.
Visit the Personal Health Application for Diabetes Self-Management project page.
University of Washington
The team from the University of Washington (UW) is using the Common Platform to store capillary blood glucose levels from two different mobile PHAs designed for patients with diabetes – the UW’s Health Reach Mobile (HRM ) system and the Norweigan Center for Telemedicine’s Few Touch system. UW is also using the platform to exchange the blood glucose values for a single patient between these two personal health applications.
Visit the Chronic Disease Medication Management Between Office Visits project page.
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center & Vanderbilt University Medical Center
The Colorado and Vanderbilt teams collaborated to use the Common Platform as a shared solution between the two projects. They used the platform to store medication lists, including the names and characteristics of the medications, the number/amount prescribed, and dosing frequencies. Patient demographics and medication information will be shared between the Colorado and Vanderbilt PHAs.
Visit the Assisting Older Adults with Transitions of Care project page. (Colorado)
Visit the My-Medi-Health: A Vision for a Child-focused Personal Medication Management System project page. (Vanderbilt)
Research Triangle Institute
The team from RTI used the platform to store physical activity observations that were recorded by a personal health device, such as a pedometer. In addition, patient data that consisted of self-reported mood descriptions were stored in the Observation service. The project team made use of the Access Control Service rules and roles functionality to control access to patient data by authorized users.
Visit the A PHR System for At-Risk Sedentary Adults project page.
