2. Organization Profile: Alleviate
Technologies
• Founded in 2010 by IIT and NSIT graduates with aiming to
build the intelligent products on IT arena.
• Specializes in Quality IT Consulting and Enterprise solutions
• Enterprise Solutions
• Staff augmentation
• Mobile App Development
• NETIQ Consultancy
• mHealth Technologies: mVirtual Health mobile application and
web portal.
4. Introduction
• mHealth
• Use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as
they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health
care delivery systems.
• Mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications
technologies for health care.
5. Problem statement: Development of mVirtual Health
application.
Rationale:
1. mHealth is a user oriented health service which can
significantly improve the quality of healthcare inn India.
2. mHealth has a huge potential to make a difference in
preventive health care which has not been studied yet in
India.
6. WorkingofmHealth
mvh Universal Device
measures blood glucose,
SpO2, ECG, temperature
Data goes to
secured cloud.
Patient can enter data
in web portal, mobile,
receive notifications
and interact with the
doctor through them.
Can access patient records
and communicate with
patient accordingly via
mobile and web portal.
Data communication
with secured cloud via
secured channel.
Secured cloud
- maintains EHR
- generates
notifications,
reminders, reports
- enables interaction
7. 1. Amneris E Luque et al (2013) : Barriers And Facilitators Of Online Patient
Portals To Personal Health Records Among Persons Living With HIV:
Formative Research
• 86% respondents had some experience of using internet
• Majority expressed interest in the portal and its features
• 70% wanted to learn the use
• Important barriers were computer or broadband access and privacy
• Majority preferred use of a small handheld device like an iPad than a
desktop PC
2. Chang LW et al (2013): Perceptions and acceptability of mHealth
interventions for improving patient care at a community-based HIV/AIDS
clinic in Uganda: A mixed methods study
• Majority believed that mHealth would improve efficiency and patient
care
• Barriers were maintenance of patient confidentiality and lack of training
Review of Literature
8. 3. Samantha J Parker et al (2013) : Older adults are mobile too! Identifying
the barriers and facilitators to older adults’ use of mHealth for pain
management
• 85% of participants were very willing to use mHealth to help manage
their pain condition
• 59% used cell phones and 41% regularly searched internet
• Potential barriers included cost, privacy concerns, and functional
limitations like visual and auditory deficits
4. McGillicuddy JW (2013): Patient attitudes toward mobile phone-based
health monitoring: questionnaire study among kidney transplant
recipients.
• 90% of respondents own a mobile yet only 7% had a prior knowledge
of mobile based remote monitoring
• 79% had positive attitude towards its use if it was available free of cost
• Majority believed that it would improve self-efficacy and provider
driven medical management
• Believed privacy would be maintained
9. Objectives
• General objective:
• Development of mVirtualhealth application
• Specific objectives:
• Analysis of the acceptance of mobile healthcare
• Preparation of the content for the portal and the mobile
application
• Observation of the technology used in making the mobile
application and web portal
• Testing of the working of the website portal.
• Preparation of the documents for product promotion.
10. 1. Acceptance of mHealth
services by mobile users
• Methodology :
• Study area: Delhi and NCR
• Study design: Cross Sectional And Descriptive
• Study population: Mobile Phone Users Of Delhi and NCR
• Sample size: Consisted Of 57 Mobile Users
• Tools and techniques: Questionnaire And Personal Interviews to
survey on acceptance of mHealth services by mobile users of
Delhi and NCR .
• Development of software
• Data analysis : Using SPSS
11. Survey findings:
• Fig.1 Usefulness of a device that will measure your body vitals (blood glucose,
blood pressure, BMI, temperature, ECG and pulse oximetry) and apprise you of
your health status immediately
18. Discussion
• Most of the people agree that a tool apprising them of their
health status regularly will be useful
• People have no reservations in accessing their health records
via a web portal
• Majority of people agree that mHealth can be instrumental in
bringing down healthcare costs
• People agree that mHealth has potential to improve quality of
healthcare
19. 2. Preparation of content for the
web portal and mobile application
• Information and representation of the following parameters:
• Body mass index
• Blood glucose
• Blood pressure
• Pulse oximetry
• Temperature
21. 3. Technologies observed
• Hardware : universal device with bluetooth connectivity to
measure the body parameters
• Languages used :
• HTML
• CSS
• Java Script
• AJAX
• ASP.NET based web apps
• Android phone ( native app)
22. 4. Testing of the working of the
website portal
• A demo video explaining the features of the website was
developed.
23. Preparation of documents for
promotion of mVirtualhealth
• User Guide
• Presentation for Users
• Presentation for Physicians
• Demo videos for Users and Physicians
24. Conclusion
• mHealth : need of the hour
• High mobile penetration in India
• Has potential to bring down costs
• Instrumental in preventive healthcare
• Improve the accessibility and quality of healthcare
25. References
1. Alleviate Technologies Pvt Ltd c 2013[cited May24, 2013]. Available from
http://www.alleviatetech.com/
2. mvirtualhealth.com. c 2013 [cited May 12, 2013] Available from
https://www.mvirtualhealth.com/
3. Amneris E Luque, Adjuah van Keken, Paul Winters, Michael C Keefer, Mechelle
Sanders, and Kevin Fiscella. Barriers and Facilitators of Online Patient Portals
to Personal Health Records Among Persons Living With HIV: Formative
Research. JMIR Res Protoc. 2013 Jan-Jun; 2(1): e8. [Published online 2013
January 22]. doi: 10.2196/resprot.2302
4. Parker SJ, Jessel S, Richardson JE, Reid MC. Older adults are mobile too!
Identifying the barriers and facilitators to older adults' use of mHealth for pain
management. BMC Geriatr. 2013 May 6;13:43. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-
43.
5. Chang LW, Njie-Carr V, Kalenge S, Kelly JF, Bollinger RC, Alamo-Talisuna S.
Perceptions and acceptability of mHealth interventions for improving patient
care at a community-based HIV/AIDS clinic in Uganda: A mixed methods study.
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6. McGillicuddy JW, Weiland AK, Frenzel RM, Mueller M, Brunner-Jackson
BM, Taber DJ, et al. Patient attitudes toward mobile phone-based health
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