Patient Pocket Care

The goal of this project is to develop a software application that provides real-time, anywhere access to electronic medical records (EMR). This application will be used by health care professionals (users) on their mobile handheld devices to enhance quality of patient care. Main features include the following:

• Support for text, audio and video EMR.
• Automatic EMR Synchronization - When a user updates an EMR on his/her handheld device, the software tool should automatically synchronize the changes on all the other handheld devices in the hospital containing that EMR.
• EMR Search & Download – A user can query for an EMR and download that specific EMR from multiple sources simultaneously to enable faster downloads.
• Effective Bandwidth Usage – If a user is located in a low bandwidth area, his/her handheld device will be sent a text message alerting that critical updates are available on a certain EMR. Then that user can move into an area with better bandwidth coverage to synchronize his/her handheld device with the updated EMR.
• User Groups – In order to prevent network flooding, user groups will be created. Level 1 users (Power users) will be updated with all the changes whereas Level 4 users (Common users) will be updated only with the required changes. The privileges and data distribution to other levels (such as Level 2 and
  Level 3) will be set accordingly.
• Secure Access - Fingerprint identification will be used to provide secure access to the EMR

This project is sponsored by California based palmOne Inc. The software application will be developed using the C++ programming language for palmOne handheld devices.