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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.

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Abstract:Patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes have to monitor complex sets of medical observations and behaviors. This includes blood glucose, weight, cholesterol, HbA1c, blood pressure, as well as diet, exercise and medication. We have developed a set of web-based, highly interactive graphic modules that are integrated in a personal health record to provide an easy and pleasant way for patients to browse through their historical data. By using a Web 2.0 framework with technologies such as AJAX and Flash/Flex, coupled with a mechanism of loading data on demand, we minimized the amount of data passed between the server and the browser and we were able to build a highly interactive and responsive graphic user interface that displays two-dimensional graphs for diabetic patients. As a result, the patients are using their personal health record on a daily basis, resulting in a more accurate, complete and useful application.