Using online social media platforms for ubiquitous, personal health monitoring
Abstract
We propose the use of an open and publicly accessible online social media platform (OSMP) as a key component for ubiquitous and personal remote health monitoring. Remote monitoring is an essential part of future mHealth systems for the delivery of personal healthcare allowing the collection of personal bio-data outside clinical environments. Previous mHealth projects focused on building private and custom platforms using closed architectures, which have a high cost for implementation, take a long time to develop, and may provide limited access and usability. By exploiting existing and publicly accessible infrastructure using an OSMP, initial costs can be reduced, at the same time as allowing fast and flexible application development at scale, whilst presenting users with interfaces and interactions that they are familiar with. We survey and discuss suitability of OSMPs in terms of functionality, performance and the key challenge in ensuring appropriate levels of security and privacy.
Citation
Khorakhun , C & Bhatti , S N 2014 , Using online social media platforms for ubiquitous, personal health monitoring . in 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) . IEEE , pp. 287 - 292 , 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) , Natal , Brazil , 15/10/14 . https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001856 conference
Publication
2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)
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Conference item
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© 2014. IEEE. This is the accepted manuscript of a conference paper originally submitted to the 014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Using online social media platforms for ubiquitous, personal health monitoring, Khorakhun, C. & Bhatti, S. N. 15 Oct 2014 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom). IEEE, p. 287 - 292 available from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7001856
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Date of Acceptance: 29/08/2014Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.